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Detection of microplastics using thermoanalytical methods
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This conference presentation summarized how thermoanalytical methods such as pyrolysis-GC/MS and TGA can be used to detect and quantify microplastics in environmental samples. Thermoanalytical approaches offer advantages over visual methods by providing polymer-specific quantitative data on mass concentrations of microplastics.
The presentation summarized the use of thermal analytic methods for the detection of microplastics.
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