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Microplastic and nanoplastic analysis in drinking water and indoor air with Raman micro-spectroscopy
Summary
Raman micro-spectroscopy was used to detect and characterize micro- and nanoplastics in drinking water and indoor air, demonstrating the technique's value for assessing human exposure to plastic particles across multiple environments.
Micro Raman analysis of micro and nanoplastics in drinking water: from number to mass (Poster) 25 th -28 th September 2022 3 rd International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea (III µMed), Naples (Italy) A comparison between FTIR microscopy and Raman microscopy applied to microplastic analysis in drinking water (Oral) 14 th -18 th November 2022 MICRO 2022, online and Aalborg (Denmark) Study and comparison of a new substrate compatible with µFTIR and µRaman (Oral, chair, and local node organization) 30 th April -
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