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Identification of Microplastics Using a Custom Built Micro-Raman Spectrometer

Researchers built a custom micro-Raman spectrometer and demonstrated its use for identifying microplastic polymer types in environmental samples, achieving sensitive and specific polymer identification at particle sizes down to a few micrometers.

2023 Journal of Physics Conference Series 18 citations
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Identification of microplastics using Raman spectroscopy: Latest developments and future prospects

This review summarizes the latest advances in using Raman spectroscopy to identify microplastics in environmental samples, highlighting improvements in speed, sensitivity, and the ability to characterize plastic type and surface chemistry.

2018 Water Research 936 citations
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Study on Rapid Recognition of Marine Microplastics Based on Raman Spectroscopy

Researchers developed a rapid identification system for marine microplastics using Raman spectroscopy, enabling quick determination of plastic type and size. Fast, accurate identification tools are critical for monitoring the growing problem of microplastic pollution in ocean environments.

2021 Knowledge Repository of Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, CAS (Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research) 9 citations
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Raman spectroscopy: Recent advances in fast and reliable microplastic analysis

This review summarized recent advances in Raman spectroscopy for fast and reliable microplastic identification, covering improvements in speed, sensitivity, and automation that are making the technique more practical for routine environmental monitoring. Raman-based methods are increasingly able to identify microplastics in complex environmental matrices including biological tissues.

2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Design of a confocal micro-Raman spectroscopy system and research on microplastics detection

Researchers built a custom confocal micro-Raman spectroscopy system designed to detect microplastics more cost-effectively than commercial instruments. The improved signal quality enables more accurate identification of plastic polymer types in environmental samples.

2021 Applied Optics 14 citations
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Rapid identification of micro and nanoplastics by line scan Raman micro-spectroscopy

Researchers developed a faster Raman spectroscopy tool for identifying microplastic particles by scanning a line rather than a single point at a time, improving imaging speed by 10 to 100 times over conventional methods. This allows the same chemical identification and size characterization of microplastics across large sample areas in a fraction of the time. Faster analysis methods are critical for processing the large numbers of samples needed in environmental monitoring programs.

2023 Talanta 14 citations
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Rapid MicroplasticDetection Using High-ThroughputScreening Raman Spectroscopy

Researchers developed a high-throughput screening Raman spectroscopy system for rapid microplastic detection, overcoming the traditional tradeoff between spatial resolution, field of view, and analytical throughput to enable faster identification of plastic particles across environmental samples with low concentrations.

2025 Figshare
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Development of automated microplastic identification workflow for Raman micro-imaging and evaluation of the uncertainties during micro-imaging

Researchers developed an automated identification workflow for Raman micro-imaging of microplastics, validating it with artificial samples of known polymer microspheres and showing that the workflow reliably identifies plastic type and estimates particle size across a range of sizes.

2023 Marine Pollution Bulletin 19 citations
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A review of recent progress in the application of Raman spectroscopy and SERS detection of microplastics and derivatives

This review covers advances in using Raman spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to detect and identify microplastics in the environment. These techniques offer high resolution and sensitive detection that can identify specific plastic types even at very small sizes. Better detection methods are essential for understanding the true extent of microplastic contamination and its potential risks to human health.

2023 Microchimica Acta 53 citations
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Microplastic identification using Raman microsocpy

Researchers developed and implemented a Raman spectroscopy system for rapid detection and identification of microplastic particles on substrates. The system enables efficient chemical characterization of microplastics found across diverse environmental matrices including ocean, lakes, soil, beach sediment, and human blood.

2022 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Characterization and identification of microplastics using Raman spectroscopy coupled with multivariate analysis

Researchers developed a new method using Raman spectroscopy combined with machine learning to identify and classify seven types of microplastics with over 98% accuracy for most polymer types. The approach was also able to correctly identify real-world microplastic samples from snack boxes, water bottles, juice bottles, and medicine vials. This technique could make microplastic detection faster and more reliable compared to manual analysis methods.

2022 Analytica Chimica Acta 168 citations
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How to Identify and Quantify Microplastics and Nanoplastics Using Raman Imaging?

This paper reviews advances in Raman imaging as a method for identifying and quantifying microplastics and nanoplastics in environmental samples, discussing current protocols, analytical challenges, and the need for standardization.

2024 Analytical Chemistry 9 citations
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Raman spectroscopy: Recent advances in fast and reliable microplastic analysis

This review covered recent advances in Raman spectroscopy for fast and reliable microplastic analysis, with emphasis on its ability to characterize small particles that can penetrate living tissues. The authors highlight improvements in speed and sensitivity that are making Raman techniques more practical for environmental monitoring.

2024 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Applications of Raman spectroscopy for microplastic detection and characterization: a comprehensive spectral reference

This review evaluates Raman spectroscopy as a tool for detecting and identifying microplastics across water, soil, air, and biological samples. The study consolidates reference spectra for common plastic polymers and discusses recent innovations like surface-enhanced Raman techniques that improve detection sensitivity, while also addressing challenges like fluorescence interference in complex samples.

2025 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 3 citations
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Raman Imaging Spectroscopy: History, Fundamentals and Current Scenario of the Technique

This review covers the history and principles of Raman imaging spectroscopy, a technique increasingly used to identify and map the chemical composition of microplastics in environmental samples. The review provides technical context for one of the most important tools in microplastic analysis.

2019 Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society 51 citations
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Detection of microplastics based on spatial heterodyne Raman spectroscopy

Researchers developed a spatial heterodyne Raman spectroscopy method for detecting microplastics, offering advantages over existing techniques by reducing detection time, lowering false detection rates, and using more affordable equipment.

2022 Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 23 citations
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Fast microplastics identification with stimulated Raman scattering microscopy

Stimulated Raman scattering microscopy was applied to rapidly identify and image microplastic particles in complex environmental samples at speeds dramatically faster than conventional Raman spectroscopy. The technique has potential to enable high-throughput microplastic analysis that could make large-scale environmental monitoring more feasible.

2018 Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 165 citations
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Machine learning assisted Raman spectroscopy: A viable approach for the detection of microplastics

This review covers how machine learning combined with Raman spectroscopy can improve the detection and identification of microplastics in environmental samples. Traditional detection methods are slow and have limitations in resolution and particle size analysis, but AI algorithms can process spectral data more quickly and accurately. Better detection tools are essential for understanding the true scale of microplastic contamination in our water, food, and environment.

2024 Journal of Water Process Engineering 53 citations
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The assessment of particle selection and blank correction to enhance the analysis of microplastics with Raman microspectroscopy

Researchers improved the efficiency of Raman microspectroscopy analysis for microplastics by implementing automated particle selection and optimized blank correction methods, significantly reducing analysis time while maintaining accuracy for complex environmental samples.

2022 The Science of The Total Environment 37 citations
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Flow Raman Spectroscopy for the Detection and Identification of Small Microplastics

Researchers developed a new method using flow Raman spectroscopy to detect and identify individual microplastic particles as small as 4 micrometers while they move through water. Unlike current methods that require complex sample preparation, this technique could work in real time for monitoring food and drinking water quality. The method can distinguish between different plastic types even after they have been weathered by the environment.

2025 Sensors 6 citations
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Machine Learning Method for Microplastic Identification Using a Combination of Machine Learning and Raman Spectroscopy

Researchers developed a machine learning method for identifying microplastics using a combination of multiple spectroscopic techniques, improving classification accuracy beyond single-method approaches and enabling automated polymer identification.

2024 1 citations
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Rapid Microplastic Detection Using High-Throughput Screening Raman Spectroscopy

Researchers developed a high-throughput Raman spectroscopy platform combining a 3.15 × 2.10 mm field of view with 1.4 µm spatial resolution for rapid label-free detection of microplastics. The system integrates automated particle recognition, autofocus correction, and spectral acquisition, significantly reducing analysis time compared to conventional micro-Raman approaches.

2025 ACS Omega 4 citations
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Advanced microplastic monitoring using Raman spectroscopy with a combination of nanostructure-based substrates

Researchers reviewed advances in Raman spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) — a technique that amplifies light signals using metallic nanostructures — for detecting micro- and nanoplastics at trace concentrations in environmental samples, highlighting new plasmonic materials, 3D substrates, and microfluidic chip platforms that enable on-site monitoring.

2022 Journal of nanostructure in chemistry 46 citations
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A semi-automated Raman micro-spectroscopy method for morphological and chemical characterizations of microplastic litter

Researchers developed a semi-automated Raman micro-spectroscopy method coupled with static image analysis for characterizing microplastics, achieving morphological and chemical identification of over 1,000 particles in under three hours, with polyethylene, polystyrene, and polypropylene as the dominant types in the environmental sample.

2016 Marine Pollution Bulletin 176 citations