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Fate and Transport of Microplastics from Water Sources

Current Science 2019 72 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 40 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.
Monnisha Ganesan, Gobi Nallathambi, S. Srinivasalu

Summary

Researchers analysed microplastics in surface water, groundwater, and bottled drinking water near Chennai, India, detecting 66 particles of fibrous and fragmented shapes across all sample types. SEM-EDX analysis confirmed the presence of heavy metals including chromium, titanium, and barium adhered to microplastic surfaces, while FTIR identified polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide as the dominant polymer types.

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PA PE PET
Study Type Environmental

Microplastics as environmental pollutants affect surface water and groundwater. Surface water, groundwater and branded drinking water bottles were analysed in and around Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The total count of microplastics was found to be 66 particles with fibrous and fragmented shape, colours such as white, blue, green, yellow, pink and black under optical microscope. SEM-EDX-used to study morphology and elemental analysis of microplastics confirmed the presence of heavy metals such as Cr, Ti, Mo, Ba and Ru adhered to their surface. Polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide were confirmed by the presence of functional groups of the polymers by FTIR equipped with attenuated total reflectance.

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