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Thermally-triggered ionic liquids: New platform for ‘on-command’ release of ions

2020
Swati Arora, Jierui Liang, Jennifer E. Laaser, Susan K. Fullerton‐Shirey

Summary

This paper appears to be mislabeled — its abstract describes a microplastics survey of Tennessee lakes rather than the ionic liquids topic indicated in the title. The content reports finding microplastics in two freshwater lakes at concentrations linked to surrounding human activity levels.

Study Type Environmental

Studies have shown that plastics degrade into microplastics with a diameter of 5mm or less. Many studies have been completed on the presence of microplastics in marine environments, with fewer studies on freshwater environments. This study attempts to determine the content of microplastics in two freshwater lakes in Tennessee that have varying degrees of human activity near the lake u2014 Kentucky Lake on the Tennessee River and Mapleu2019s Creek Lake isolated in the Natchez Trace State Park. Samples were collected from various locations within the two lakes via bulk sampling. The size of the microplastics were determined with a particle size analyzer, and then the chemical composition of the particles was determined by FT-IR.

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