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Recent advances and future technologies in nano-microplastics detection

Researchers reviewed the latest technologies for detecting microplastics and nanoplastics (tiny plastic particles found even in remote environments), including AI-driven classification and advanced microscopy techniques. As particle sizes shrink, detection becomes harder, and the lack of standardized methods remains a major barrier to understanding their full impact on ecosystems and human health.

2025 Environmental Sciences Europe 93 citations
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Advancements and challenges in microplastic detection and risk assessment: Integrating AI and standardized methods

This review examines current methods for detecting and measuring microplastics in water, soil, and biological samples, including microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. The authors highlight how artificial intelligence could make detection faster and more accurate. Standardized testing methods and better health risk assessments are needed to understand and manage the dangers microplastics pose to human health.

2025 Marine Pollution Bulletin 17 citations
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Artificial intelligence in microplastic detection and pollution control

This review examines how artificial intelligence is being combined with spectroscopy and imaging techniques to dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of microplastic detection in the environment. Better detection methods are essential for tracking the sources and spread of microplastic pollution that ultimately affects human health through contaminated food and water.

2024 Environmental Research 68 citations
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Emerging analytical frontiers in microplastic detection: From spectroscopy to smart sensor technologies

Researchers reviewed the latest tools for detecting microplastics and nanoplastics, covering methods from laser-based spectroscopy and heat-based chemical identification to electrochemical sensors and AI-powered analysis. The review highlights that while no single method can do everything, combining these approaches — especially with machine learning — is moving the field toward faster, cheaper, and more accurate detection in water, food, and human tissue.

2025 Talanta Open 12 citations
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A Critical Review on Artificial Intelligence—Based Microplastics Imaging Technology: Recent Advances, Hot-Spots and Challenges

Researchers reviewed the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for detecting and identifying microplastics in environmental samples. The study found that AI-based imaging tools can significantly speed up analysis and improve accuracy compared to traditional manual methods. However, challenges remain around standardizing datasets and making these tools accessible for routine environmental monitoring.

2023 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 56 citations
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Challenges and Recent Analytical Advances in Micro/Nanoplastic Detection

This review covers the challenges scientists face in detecting and measuring micro- and nanoplastics in the environment, especially for particles smaller than one micrometer. Current analytical methods have significant limitations for identifying nanoplastics due to their extremely small size and diverse chemical compositions. Improving detection technology is essential for accurately assessing how much microplastic contamination exists in water, food, and human tissues.

2024 Analytical Chemistry 41 citations
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When microplastics meet electroanalysis: future analytical trends for an emerging threat

This review examines the evolution of analytical methods for detecting microplastics, highlighting the emerging advantages of electroanalytical sensors — particularly for sub-micron particles — over traditional spectroscopic and thermal methods, and discussing the growing role of artificial intelligence in automated microplastic analysis.

2023 Analytical Methods 9 citations
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Microplastic Pollution Studies and Management

This review explores how artificial intelligence is transforming microplastic research, from automating detection in microscopy images and spectral analysis to predicting how plastics interact with pollutants and living organisms. AI-powered sensors and real-time monitoring systems are also being integrated into wastewater treatment to reduce microplastic release, making the technology a powerful tool for both understanding and managing plastic pollution.

2025 Recent Progress in Science and Engineering 2 citations
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Using artificial intelligence to rapidly identify microplastics pollution and predict microplastics environmental behaviors

This review summarizes how artificial intelligence and machine learning are being used to identify, track, and predict the environmental behavior of microplastics in soil and water. AI methods can analyze the chemical composition, shape, and distribution of microplastics faster and more accurately than traditional techniques. The technology could help scientists better understand where microplastics accumulate and what risks they pose to ecosystems and human health.

2024 Journal of Hazardous Materials 50 citations
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Advancing Micro Plastic Analysis: A Comprehensive Review of Detection and Characterization Techniques

This review evaluates the current state of microplastic detection and characterization methods, from visual identification to advanced spectroscopic techniques. Researchers highlighted the challenges of detecting microplastics in complex environmental samples and the limitations of existing approaches. The study calls for standardized methods and emerging technologies to improve the accuracy and reliability of microplastic analysis across different ecosystems.

2024 Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology 3 citations
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Chemical Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Challenges, Advanced Methods, and Perspectives

This review covers the latest laboratory methods for detecting and measuring microplastics and nanoplastics in environmental samples like water, food, and air. Identifying these tiny particles is extremely challenging because they vary enormously in size, shape, and plastic type, and concentrations can differ by billions of times between samples. Better standardized detection methods are essential for accurately understanding how much microplastic humans are actually exposed to.

2021 Chemical Reviews 927 citations
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The Development of Sensors for Microplastic Detection Using Artificial Intelligence

This review examined AI-enhanced sensors developed for microplastic detection and characterization in aquatic environments, covering machine learning, deep learning, and spectroscopic sensor approaches. The authors found that AI substantially reduces the labor intensity of microplastic identification and improves detection of small particles, though training dataset standardization and real-world validation remain priority challenges.

2025 International Journal of Artificial Intelligence
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Challenges and Advances in Analytical Techniques to Detect Micro- and Nanoplastics

This research review summarizes the current methods scientists use to detect and study microplastics and nanoplastics - tiny plastic particles that can get into our environment, food, and bodies. The authors explain that identifying these extremely small plastic pieces is very challenging and requires advanced laboratory techniques to understand what types of plastics they are and how much is present. Better detection methods are important because we need to understand how much plastic pollution we're exposed to and its potential effects on human health.

2026
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Advances in machine learning for the detection and characterization of microplastics in the environment

This review examines how machine learning and artificial intelligence are being used to speed up and improve the detection of microplastics in the environment. Techniques like neural networks and computer vision can now automatically identify plastic types and count particles much faster than traditional manual methods, though challenges remain in standardizing these approaches.

2025 Frontiers in Environmental Science 34 citations
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Artificial intelligence in microplastics domain: Current progress, challenges, and sustainable prospects

This critical review assesses how artificial intelligence tools—including machine learning and image recognition—are being applied to detect, characterize, and predict the behavior of microplastics in the environment. AI approaches show promise for overcoming persistent bottlenecks in large-scale microplastic analysis, but the authors highlight challenges around data quality, model interpretability, and standardization that must be addressed for these tools to reach their potential.

2026 Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Machine Learning Advancements and Strategies in Microplastic and Nanoplastic Detection

This systematic review looks at how machine learning is improving our ability to detect tiny microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment. Better detection methods matter because accurately measuring plastic contamination is the first step toward understanding — and reducing — human exposure.

2025 Environmental Science & Technology 45 citations
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Machine LearningAdvancements and Strategies in Microplasticand Nanoplastic Detection

This systematic review summarizes how machine learning technology is being used to detect microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment. Better detection methods are important because understanding where these particles are and how much is present is the first step toward assessing risks to human health.

2025 Figshare
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Analytical Techniques for the Detection and Characterization of Microplastics: an Overview

This overview reviews state-of-the-art analytical methods for identifying and characterizing microplastics, covering spectroscopic and microscopic approaches and their strengths and limitations for detecting plastic particles across environmental compartments including water, soil, and biological samples.

2025 KDU Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies
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Role of AI in Microplastic Pollution Detection and management studies

This review assessed how artificial intelligence approaches—including machine learning and deep learning—are being applied to detect, identify, and monitor microplastics in environmental and biological samples. The authors found AI substantially accelerates microplastic characterization workflows but that training data quality and standardization across studies remains a limiting factor.

2025
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Electrochemical approaches for detecting micro and nano-plastics in different environmental matrices

This review evaluates electrochemical sensor technologies as alternatives to conventional spectroscopy methods for detecting micro- and nanoplastics in environmental samples. Researchers found that electrochemical approaches offer advantages in cost, portability, and speed, making them better suited for widespread field monitoring. The study identifies key technical challenges that need to be resolved before these sensors can be broadly adopted for routine environmental surveillance.

2025 International Journal of Electrochemical Science 3 citations
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Bridging Nanomanufacturing and Artificial Intelligence—A Comprehensive Review

This review covers how artificial intelligence and machine learning are being applied to nanomanufacturing for medicine, robotics, and electronics. While not about microplastics directly, the AI-powered nanoscale detection and characterization methods discussed could be applied to identifying and quantifying nanoplastics in the environment and human tissue. Advances in nano-scale imaging and analysis driven by AI may eventually help researchers better understand human exposure to nanoplastics.

2024 Materials 64 citations
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Recent advances on the methods developed for the identification and detection of emerging contaminant microplastics: a review

This review surveyed recent advances in methods for detecting and identifying microplastics in environmental samples. Researchers compared techniques including spectroscopy, microscopy, and newer automated approaches, evaluating their strengths and limitations. The study highlights that while detection capabilities have improved significantly, there is still a need for standardized, cost-effective methods that can reliably identify very small microplastic particles.

2023 RSC Advances 37 citations
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Spectro‐Microscopic Techniques for Studying Nanoplastics in the Environment and in Organisms

This review examined spectro-microscopic techniques available for detecting and studying nanoplastics in environmental and biological samples. The study highlights that detecting nanoplastics remains challenging because their small size falls below the detection limits of common analytical tools, and their chemical composition is similar to organic matrices, making identification difficult.

2022 Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55 citations
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New Analytical Approaches for Effective Quantification and Identification of Nanoplastics in Environmental Samples

This review assessed new analytical approaches for quantifying and identifying nanoplastics in environmental samples, highlighting fundamental challenges in detection due to their small size and the need for improved methods to understand nanoplastic contamination levels.

2021 Processes 31 citations