A carbon-14 radiotracer-based study on the phototransformation of polystyrene nanoplastics in water versus in air-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A carbon-14 radiotracer-based study on the phototransformation of polystyrene nanoplastics in water versus in air

Published:2019 Issue:9 Volume:6 Page:2907-2917
ISSN:2051-8153
Container-title:Environmental Science: Nano
language:en
Short-container-title:Environ. Sci.: Nano

Author:

Tian Lili¹²³⁴⁵,Chen Qianqian¹²³⁴⁵,Jiang Wei¹²³⁴⁵,Wang Lianhong¹²³⁴⁵,Xie Huixiang⁶⁷⁸⁹^ORCID,Kalogerakis Nicolas¹⁰¹¹¹²¹³,Ma Yini¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Ji Rong¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse

2. School of the Environment

3. Nanjing University

4. 210023 Nanjing

5. China

6. Institut des Sciences de la Mer de Rimouski

7. Université du Québec à Rimouski

8. Québec

9. Canada

10. School of Environmental Engineering

11. Technical University of Crete

12. Chania

13. Greece

Abstract

A carbon-14 radiotracer-based study revealed that water promoted mineralization and photo-oxidation of polystyrene nanoplastics with significant amounts of carbon leached out.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

National Basic Research Program of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Environmental Science,Materials Science (miscellaneous)

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/EN/C9EN00662A

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