Microplastics Detection Using Pyrolysis-GC/MS-Based Methods

Alexandre Dehaut; Ludovic Hermabessière; Guillaume Duflos

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10618-8_27-1

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Microplastics Detection Using Pyrolysis-GC/MS-Based Methods

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Alexandre Dehaut, Ludovic Hermabessière, Guillaume Duflos

Summary

Researchers reviewed pyrolysis-GC/MS, a technique that burns plastic particles and identifies them by their chemical breakdown products, finding it a reliable method for confirming whether environmental particles are truly microplastics — an important step toward standardizing detection.

By now the polymeric nature of microparticles has to be demonstrated before their classification as microplastics. Pyrolysis coupled to gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) has been used for years to characterize polymers. Thanks to three distinct...

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