Microplastics in the Black Sea sediments.

Black Sea FT-IR Marine pollution Microplastic Sediment

Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
15 Mar 2021
Historique:
received: 24 08 2020
revised: 17 11 2020
accepted: 17 11 2020
pubmed: 21 12 2020
medline: 21 12 2020
entrez: 20 12 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

In this study the occurrence, morphology and identification of microplastics in Black Sea sediments collected at different depths (range 22-2131 m) were determined for the first time. The study explored the advantages and limitations of using a non-invasive method consisting of filtration of the supernatant from the mixture of sediment with saturated NaCl solution followed by FTIR 2D imaging for the identification of natural and synthetic polymers. The proposed method confirmed its potential for clear identification of polyethylene, polypropylene, acrylonitrile, polyamides and cellulose-based fibers, but more difficulties when the filter substrate neighboring the fibers exhibits intense absorptions in the 1800-1000 cm

Identifiants

pubmed: 33341641
pii: S0048-9697(20)37429-5
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143898
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

143898

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Alessandra Cincinelli (A)

Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy; Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo Sviluppo dei Sistemi a Grande Interfase (CSGI), 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy; National Interuniversity Consortium for Environmental Sciences (CINSA), Florence/Venice, Italy. Electronic address: acincinelli@unifi.it.

Costanza Scopetani (C)

Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.

David Chelazzi (D)

Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy; Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo Sviluppo dei Sistemi a Grande Interfase (CSGI), 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.

Tania Martellini (T)

Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy; Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo Sviluppo dei Sistemi a Grande Interfase (CSGI), 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.

Maria Pogojeva (M)

N.N.Zubov's State Oceanographic Institute, Roshydromet, 6, Kropotkinskii Lane, 119034 Moscow, Russia; Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 36, Nahimovskiy prospekt., 117997, Moscow, Russia.

Jaroslav Slobodnik (J)

Environmental Institute, Okruzna 784/42, 97241 Kos, Slovak Republic.

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