Chengyong Li

TL;DR: The SERS-based detection method overcomes the limitations of microplastics and nanoplastics in liquids and can detect 100 nm plastics down to 40 μg/mL, which provides more possibility for the rapid detection of microPlastic particles in aquatic environments in the future.

TL;DR: This study can provide a new direction for the study of coral toxicology by MPs and provide basic data for the toxicology research of MPs.

TL;DR: This work critically reviewed the analytical methods of microplastics, including sample collection, separation, identification and quantification, and found visual classification is one of the most common methods for identifying microplastic, and it can be better detected by combining it with other instruments.

TL;DR: An improved fluorescent staining method for detection and quantification of microplastics was developed based on thermal expansion and contraction and has been successfully applied to the quantification in biological samples and result showed there were about 54 particles g-1 (dry weight) microplastic in the Sipunculus nudus.

TL;DR: It is discovered that the metabolic activities of the dominant bacteria on certain microplastics were related to the specific groups on polymers molecule, and that mangrove rhizosphere microorganism can be an ideal candidate for plastics-degradation.