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A Microwave-Based Sensing Platform for Microplastic Detection and Quantification: A Machine Learning-Assisted Approach

Researchers developed a low-cost microwave sensor combined with machine learning to detect and quantify microplastics in water and identify polymer types in unknown samples. The platform achieved the highest sensitivity reported among microwave-based approaches for microplastic detection, offering a promising low-cost alternative to spectroscopy-based methods.

2025
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Microfluidic Microwave Sensor for Rapid Detection of Microplastics in Water: Optimization, Modeling, and Performance Evaluation

Researchers developed a microfluidic sensor that uses microwave technology to rapidly detect microplastics in water samples without physical contact. The sensor was optimized to distinguish between different concentrations and sizes of plastic particles with high sensitivity. The technology could enable faster and more practical on-site monitoring of microplastic contamination in water supplies.

2024 IEEE Sensors Journal 8 citations
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Detection of microplastics by microfluidic microwave sensing: An exploratory study

Researchers developed a compact microwave sensor on a microfluidic chip to detect microplastics in water samples. The system works by measuring how the presence of plastic particles changes the electrical properties of water. While the technology shows promise as a rapid and portable detection method, its current sensitivity needs improvement before it can detect the low microplastic concentrations typically found in natural freshwater.

2024 Sensors and Actuators A Physical 18 citations
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Size and concentration characterization of microplastic particles in aqueous samples using sensitivity-enhanced coupled planar microwave resonators

Researchers developed a novel microwave sensing platform for real-time detection and characterization of microplastic particles in water samples. The sensor uses an enhanced coupled planar microwave resonator design with a low-cost disposable sample holder, enabling rapid, non-destructive measurement of microplastic particle size and concentration without cross-contamination between tests.

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials 5 citations
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Microplastic Identification Using Impedance Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Algorithms

Scientists developed a new method to detect and classify microplastics in water using electrical measurements and machine learning. The system can identify different sizes of PET microplastic particles with high accuracy, offering a potential tool for real-time water quality monitoring. Better detection methods like this are important for understanding how much microplastic contamination exists in drinking water and other water sources.

2024 International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 10 citations
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Microplastics Detection with Microfluidic Near-Field Microwave Sensors

A new microfluidic sensor integrating a microwave detector was developed that can identify microplastics in water in real time without labelling, by measuring how particles change the dielectric properties of the water flowing through the device. This kind of low-cost, continuous-monitoring sensor could make routine environmental surveillance for microplastic contamination more practical.

2024 2 citations
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Portable Multichannel Measurement System for Real-Time Microplastics Assessment Using Microwave Sensors

Scientists developed a portable multichannel electronic system that uses microwave sensors to detect microplastics in water in real time, capable of simultaneously reading up to four sensors targeting particles of different sizes. The system combines radio-frequency integrated circuits with signal-conditioning hardware for field-deployable monitoring. This kind of low-cost, portable sensing technology could make routine microplastic screening much more practical at waterways and treatment facilities.

2026 Sensors
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RF MEMS Resonance Sensor for Measuring Microplastics Concentration

Researchers designed an RF MEMS resonance sensor capable of detecting microplastics in water at low cost, offering a practical alternative to expensive conventional particle analyzers for environmental monitoring.

2022 2022 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) 6 citations
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Passive Disposable Microwave Sensor for Online Microplastic Contamination Monitoring

Researchers developed a passive disposable microwave sensor for online monitoring of microplastic contamination in water, using a sensitivity-enhanced planar dual-resonator tag-reader structure combined with a silicon resonator to enable non-contact concentration measurement.

2022 2022 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2022 19 citations
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Approaches to Detect Microplastics in Water Using Electrical Impedance Measurements and Support Vector Machines

Researchers developed an electrical impedance spectroscopy method enhanced with machine learning to detect microplastics in water, achieving over 98% classification accuracy for stationary samples and over 85% for dynamic flow measurements across different plastic materials and particle sizes.

2023 IEEE Sensors Journal 30 citations
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Design and Development of an Advanced Sensor Prototype for the Detection of Microplastics

Researchers designed and developed an advanced sensor prototype for detecting microplastics in water, combining spectroscopic and signal processing technologies into a portable device. The prototype demonstrated accurate microplastic identification across multiple polymer types in field conditions.

2024 Preprints.org
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Comparative Analysis of Sub-6 GHz Microwave Sensors Suitable for Low-Cost In-Situ Microplastic Detection

This engineering paper compares the performance of several microwave resonator sensor designs for detecting microplastics in water, motivated by the growing availability of low-cost handheld instruments. Laboratory tests showed meaningful differences in sensitivity between sensor geometries, with one design showing the highest relative frequency shift in response to a nylon sample. While purely technical, such sensor development work is an important step toward affordable, portable microplastic monitoring tools that could be deployed in rivers, tap water systems, or food processing facilities.

2025 1 citations
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Cost-Effective and Wireless Portable Device for Rapid and Sensitive Quantification of Micro/Nanoplastics

Researchers developed a wireless portable device for rapid quantification of micro- and nanoplastics in water samples, offering a field-deployable alternative to laboratory-based analysis for environmental monitoring.

2024 4 citations
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Compact low-cost sensor for microplastics detection and classification in marine and aquatic environments

Researchers developed a compact, low-cost sensor for detecting and classifying microplastics in marine and aquatic environments, designed to reduce the economic burden of MP monitoring along coastlines and enable more frequent and scalable environmental surveillance.

2025 Instrumentation viewpoint
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Compact low-cost sensor for microplastics detection and classification in marine and aquatic environments

Researchers developed a compact, low-cost sensor for detecting and classifying microplastics in marine and aquatic environments, designed to reduce the economic burden of MP monitoring along coastlines and enable more frequent and scalable environmental surveillance.

2025
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Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning for Microplastics Identification and Classification in Water Environments

Researchers combined Raman spectroscopy with machine learning algorithms for automated identification and classification of microplastics in water environments, achieving high accuracy in distinguishing different polymer types based on spectral fingerprints.

2022 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 35 citations
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Microplastics detection with microfluidics integrated with a microwave sensor

Researchers developed a microwave sensor integrated with a microfluidic channel for real-time microplastics detection in water, using finite-element simulations to optimize sensitivity and validating performance experimentally. The system achieved a sensitivity of 0.1 dB and detected microplastics as small as 600 micrometers through measurement of reflected signal variations.

2024 Measurement Sensors 1 citations
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Microplastic Detection in Soil and Water Using Resonance Microwave Spectroscopy: A Feasibility Study

Researchers conducted a feasibility study using resonance microwave reflectometry to detect and quantify microplastics in soil and water, demonstrating that microplastic concentration could be expressed as a linear function of measured S11 resonance frequency shifts in artificially prepared samples.

2020 IEEE Sensors Journal 61 citations
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SRR-Based Disposable Microwave-Microfluidic Sensor for Assessing Liquid Carrier Influence on Microplastic Detection

Researchers developed a double split-ring resonator microwave-microfluidic sensor that can detect polyethylene microplastics in various liquid carriers (including agricultural water with dissolved salts), minimizing the effect of liquid composition on detection accuracy.

2025
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A Fully Integrated Portable Microplastic Detection System-on-Chip With High-Sensitivity RF MEMS Sensors and Narrow-Band Notch-Tracking Dielectric Discrimination Algorithms

Researchers developed a compact, portable chip that can detect and identify common microplastic types (PE, PP, PET, PS, PMMA) using radio-frequency sensors and signal-tracking algorithms, validating results against real-world samples including laundry wastewater. This kind of low-cost, on-site detection technology is important because existing lab-based methods are expensive and slow, limiting how widely microplastics can be monitored in the environment.

2026 IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement