Mehnaz Shams

TL;DR: In this article, the authors have elucidated how global plastic production rise during COVID-19 and how it would contribute to short and long-term impacts on the environment, and assessed how the increased plastic pollution will aggravate the micro and nanoscale plastic problem, which have now become an emerging concern.

TL;DR: Results showed that salt types and ionic strength had significant effects on the stability of both polyethylene and polystyrene nanoscale plastics, while pH had none, indicating that significant aqueous transport of nanoscALE plastics will be possible in natural surface waters.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of functional groups on the degradation of graphene oxide nanomaterials under direct sunlight was investigated by systematically varying the surface chemistry, and the degradation was determined to be directly related to the functional groups present on the basal plane of the graphene nano-materials.

TL;DR: Conclusively, the smart material shows excellent efficiency and selectivity for the removal of ReO4- from aqueous solutions for electrically switched ion exchange method.

TL;DR: In this article, a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) was used to investigate the interaction of polyethylene and polystyrene nanoscale plastics with natural organic matter (NOM) and silica surfaces.