Photochemical weathering of polyurethane microplastics produced complex and dynamic mixtures of dissolved organic chemicals

Sunlight exposure can naturally mitigate microplastics pollution in the surface ocean, however it results in emissions of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) whose characteristics and fate remain largely unknown. In this work, we investigated the effects of solar radiation on polyether (TPU_Ether) and...

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Main Authors: Albergamo, Vittorio, Wohlleben, Wendel, Plata, Desirée L
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148452