Coumarin 6 staining method to detect microplastics.
Coumarin
Detection
Fluorescence
Microplastic
Staining
Journal
Marine pollution bulletin
ISSN: 1879-3363
Titre abrégé: Mar Pollut Bull
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0260231
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
received:
07
04
2023
revised:
07
06
2023
accepted:
09
06
2023
medline:
26
7
2023
pubmed:
26
6
2023
entrez:
26
6
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Microplastics have contaminated the ocean in large quantities and are widely distributed throughout the world. Thus, our understanding of the concentration of microplastics in various environments should be increased. However, current methods to detect microplastics require considerable effort and expensive equipment. In this study, we developed a fluorescence staining technique using coumarin 6 and examined its effectiveness. A mixture of acetone and ethanol was used as the solvent, and 10 different types of plastics were able to be stained with coumarin 6. The fluorescence peak for coumarin 6 staining was approximately 500 nm for each plastic type. The optimal immersion time and coumarin 6 concentration for staining were determined to be 60 min and 1 mg L
Identifiants
pubmed: 37364336
pii: S0025-326X(23)00600-8
doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115167
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Microplastics
0
Plastics
0
coumarin 6
0
Water Pollutants, Chemical
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115167Informations de copyright
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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.