Laura Rowenczyk

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguished nanoplastics from microplastics with respect to their transport properties, interactions with light and natural colloids, a high fraction of particle molecules on the surface, bioavailability and diffusion times for the release of plastic additives.

TL;DR: Nanoplastics could be efficient vectors of Pb and probably of many other metals as well in the environment and could be able to compete with Fe or humic colloids for Pb binding regards to their amount and specific areas.

TL;DR: This original work characterize the microstructure of oceanic polyethylene debris and compare them to the non-weathered objects and highlights deep modifications of the debris within a layer a few hundred microns thick.

TL;DR: The overall picture at the molecular scale is that although PE becomes more crystalline with environmental exposure, the lamellar order present in new packing boxes is disrupted by the weathering process, which has important implications for embrittlement and subsequent degradation.

TL;DR: In this article, the physicochemical characterizations of 50 nm polystyrene nanospheres and natural organic matter were provided to analyze the ecotoxicological risk of NPs in the aquatic compartment, where the kinetic of aggregation was assimilated to a reactionlimited colloid aggregation mode and led to the formation of heteroaggregates in the range of 100-500 nm.