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Merle Plassmann
Researcher at Stockholm University
Publications - 27
Citations - 1874
Merle Plassmann is an academic researcher from Stockholm University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chemistry & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 20 publications receiving 957 citations.
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Pathways for degradation of plastic polymers floating in the marine environment
TL;DR: This paper reviews available information about the degradation pathways and chemicals that are formed by degradation of the six plastic types that are most widely used in Europe and extrapolate that information to likely pathways and possible degradation products under environmental conditions found on the oceans' surface.
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Identification of Chain Scission Products Released to Water by Plastic Exposed to Ultraviolet Light
TL;DR: In this paper, a laboratory protocol that simulates the exposure of plastic floating in the marine environment to ultraviolet light (UV) and nontarget analysis to identify degradation products of plastic polymers in water was developed.
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Effects of Leachates from UV-Weathered Microplastic in Cell-Based Bioassays.
Christophe Daniel Rummel,Beate I. Escher,Beate I. Escher,Oskar Sandblom,Merle Plassmann,Hans Peter H. Arp,Hans Peter H. Arp,Matthew MacLeod,Annika Jahnke +8 more
TL;DR: All plastic leachates activated the oxidative stress response, in most cases with increased induction by UV-treated samples compared to dark controls, and polyethylene-specific effects were partially explained by the detected dicarboxylic acids.
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Temporal trends of suspect- and target-per/polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), extractable organic fluorine (EOF) and total fluorine (TF) in pooled serum from first-time mothers in Uppsala, Sweden, 1996-2017
Luc T. Miaz,Merle Plassmann,Irina Gyllenhammar,Anders Bignert,Oskar Sandblom,Sanna Lignell,Anders Glynn,Jonathan P. Benskin +7 more
TL;DR: A combined method for quantitative analysis, along with suspect and non-target screening of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) was developed using ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography-ultra-high resolution (Orbitrap) mass spectrometry, which revealed the presence of perfluoro-4-ethylcyclohexanesulfonate (PFECHS), which displayed declining trends since the year 2000.
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Determination of polyfluoroalkyl compounds in water and suspended particulate matter in the river Elbe and North Sea, Germany
TL;DR: In this paper, the distribution of polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs) in the dissolved and particulate phase and their discharge from the river Elbe into the North Sea were studied.