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Sorption behavior and mechanism of hydrophilic organic chemicals to virgin and aged microplastics in freshwater and seawater

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Yiran Sun, Fei Yu Guangzhou Liu, Zhilin Zhu, Jie Ma, Fei Yu Fei Yu Fei Yu Fei Yu Jie Ma, Fei Yu Fei Yu Fei Yu Guangzhou Liu, Zhilin Zhu, Fei Yu Guangzhou Liu, Jie Ma, Zhilin Zhu, Guangzhou Liu, Guangzhou Liu, Yiran Sun, Zhilin Zhu, Fei Yu Guangzhou Liu, Zhilin Zhu, Yiran Sun, Yuxin Yang, Fei Yu Fei Yu Fei Yu Zhilin Zhu, Zhilin Zhu, Zhilin Zhu, Zhilin Zhu, Zhilin Zhu, Zhilin Zhu, Zhilin Zhu, Fei Yu Jie Ma, Jie Ma, Guangzhou Liu, Yiran Sun, Yiran Sun, Guangzhou Liu, Jie Ma, Fei Yu Jie Ma, Guangzhou Liu, Jie Ma, Fei Yu Fei Yu Jie Ma, Fei Yu Fei Yu Jie Ma, Guangzhou Liu, Jie Ma, Yuxin Yang, Yiran Sun, Jie Ma, Guangzhou Liu, Jie Ma, Guangzhou Liu, Fei Yu Zhilin Zhu, Jie Ma, Guangzhou Liu, Fei Yu Jie Ma, Guangzhou Liu, Zhilin Zhu, Fei Yu Jie Ma, Fei Yu Guangzhou Liu, Jie Ma, Jie Ma, Jie Ma, Jie Ma, Guangzhou Liu, Jie Ma, Yiran Sun, Jie Ma, Jie Ma, Jie Ma, Guangzhou Liu, Zhilin Zhu, Yuxin Yang, Fei Yu

Summary

UV-accelerated aging of polystyrene and PVC microplastics increased surface oxidation and introduced microcracks, and aged MPs showed significantly increased adsorption of the hydrophilic antibiotic ciprofloxacin compared to virgin MPs. The findings demonstrate that even hydrophilic organic chemicals can accumulate on aged microplastics, expanding the range of compounds that microplastics may carry and deliver to organisms.

Polymers

PS PVC

Study Type Environmental

Virgin microplastics undergo aging and form oxygen-containing functional groups when they enter the environment. Therefore, the sorption of organic pollutants onto microplastics is not limited to hydrophobic organic pollutants and can also occur with hydrophilic organic pollutants. Therefore, understanding the sorption behaviors and mechanism between aged microplastics and hydrophilic organic pollutants is essential for evaluating the real effects of microplastics in the environment. We investigated the impacts of the UV-accelerated aging of polystyrene (PS) and polyvinylchloride (PVC) on their sorption interactions with ciprofloxacin (CIP). The results of infrared spectroscopy (IR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed significant surface oxidation and localized microcracks on the aged microplastics. The sorption kinetics and isotherms models indicated that the sorption capacity of aged microplastics is higher than that of pristine microplastics, and their physical interactions, including partitioning, electrostatic interactions, and intermolecular hydrogen bonding, were the dominant mechanism, as demonstrated by FTIR analysis. Moreover, the sorption capacity of the pristine microplastics decreased as the degree of crystallinity increased, whereas the opposite trend was observed with aged microplastics, which means that the crystallinity is not the controlling factor. In addition, salinity suppressed adsorption on all the tested microplastics. The pH influences the electrostatic attraction between the microplastics and CIP because CIP has a different charge at different pH values. The results presented herein confirm the importance of studying the adsorption between hydrophilic organic pollutants and aged microplastics because ultimately, all microplastics become aged. Moreover, the effects of aged microplastics with adsorbed hydrophilic chemicals on organisms need to be further studied.

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