ArticleScientific reports2021
A microfluidic chip enables fast analysis of water microplastics by optical spectroscopy.
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- Microplastic Identification Methods for Microfluidic Applications: Towards Rapid Detection in Aquatic Environments.Polymers · 2026Review
- Nanodevice Approaches for Detecting Micro- and Nanoplastics in Complex Matrices.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Applications of Raman spectroscopy for microplastic detection and characterization: a comprehensive spectral reference.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025Review
- MicroMetaSense: Coupling Plasmonic Metasurfaces with Fluorescence for Enhanced Detection of Microplastics in Real Samples.ACS sensors · 2025Article
- Assessing Microplastics and Nanoparticles in the Surface Seawater of Venice Lagoon-Part I: Methodology of Research.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A microfluidic approach for label-free identification of small-sized microplastics in seawater.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Microfluidics as a Ray of Hope for Microplastic Pollution.Biosensors · 2023Review
- Photonic Microfluidic Technologies for Phytoplankton Research.Biosensors · 2022Review
- A Low-Cost Microfluidic Method for Microplastics Identification: Towards Continuous Recognition.Micromachines · 2022Article
- Advanced microplastic monitoring using Raman spectroscopy with a combination of nanostructure-based substrates.Journal of nanostructure in chemistry · 2022Review
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Abstract
Microplastics contaminating drinking water is a growing issue that has been the focus of a few recent studies, where a major bottleneck is the time-consuming analysis. In this work, a micro-optofluidic platform is proposed for fast quantification of microplastic particles, the identification of their chemical nature and size, especially in the 1-100 µm size range. Micro-reservoirs ahead of micro-filters are designed to accumulate all trapped solid particles in an ultra-compact area, which enables fast imaging and optical spectroscopy to determine the plastic nature and type. Furthermore, passive size sorting is implemented for splitting the particles according to their size range in different reservoirs. Besides, flow cytometry is used as a reference method for retrieving the size distribution of samples, where chemical nature information is lost. The proof of concept of the micro-optofluidic platform is validated using model samples where standard plastic particles of different size and chemical nature are mixed.
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