ReviewEnvironmental chemistry letters2022
Occurrence, toxicity and remediation of polyethylene terephthalate plastics. A review.
Review in Environmental chemistry letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 288 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review of the effects of nanoplastics on fish.Frontiers in toxicology · 2025Pooled it
- Chemical Degradation of Waste Polyethylene Terephthalate and Its Application in Developing Asphalt Additives.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Global Hotspots and Trends in Microbial Plastic Biodegradation for Plastic Waste Management: A Mini-Review and Bibliometric Analysis.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Lightweight green composite of bacterial cellulose/tungsten oxide nanowires for attenuation of gamma radiation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- PET Waste-Derived Hard Carbon with Superior Rate Capability for Sodium-Ion Battery Anodes.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Chitosan nanoparticles as adjuvants to enhance the biodegradation of PET by Ideonella sakaiensis.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Renal Accumulation and Hemocyte-Mediated Internalization After Acute Exposure to Injected Polyethylene Terephthalate Nanoplastics (PET-NPs) in the Freshwater GastropodJournal of xenobiotics · 2026Article
- Water-Network-Triggered Breakdown: Multiscale Theoretical Insights into PET Hydrolysis under Working Conditions.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2026Article
- Waste-to-sensor upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate over Ag/Zr-MOF photocatalyst for microplastic degradation and AI-assisted heavy metal detection.Journal of biological engineering · 2026Article
- Safety and Innovation in Conventional Plastics: A Review of Polymer Synthesis and Emerging Technologies.Polymers · 2026Review
- PET-microplastics trigger endothelial glycocalyx loss via ER stress and ROS unleashing IL-1β-driven SMC switching and early aortic structural impairment.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- Synergistic engineering PETase reveals loop-region mutations for enhanced catalytic activity and thermal stability.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2026Article
- A Bottom-Up Synthetic Approach to Polyethylene Furanoate Model Compounds.The Journal of organic chemistry · 2026Article
- Recent advances in poly(butylene adipate-Frontiers in chemistry · 2026Review
- Engineering PET surface colonization with a synthetic bacterial consortium.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Toxicological impacts of environmentally equivalent microplastics and cadmium co-exposure in tropical freshwater crabFrontiers in toxicology · 2026Article
- Environmental Micro-Nanoplastics and Musculoskeletal Disorders: Current Research and Insights.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Review
- Assessing the mechanism of osteosarcoma induced by long-term PET exposure: prediction from combined network toxicology, machine learning and molecular docking.Journal of bone oncology · 2025Article
- Degradation of polyethylene terephthalate by microorganisms and their enzymes: A review of experimental and in silico research.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2025Review
- Ingested PET microplastics alter the metabolomic profile of the porcine pancreas.Scientific reports · 2025Article
2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Polyethylene terephthalate is a common plastic in many products such as viscose rayon for clothing, and packaging material in the food and beverage industries. Polyethylene terephthalate has beneficial properties such as light weight, high tensile strength, transparency and gas barrier. Nonetheless, there is actually increasing concern about plastic pollution and toxicity. Here we review the properties, occurrence, toxicity, remediation and analysis of polyethylene terephthalate as macroplastic, mesoplastic, microplastic and nanoplastic. Polyethylene terephthalate occurs in groundwater, drinking water, soils and sediments. Plastic uptake by humans induces diseases such as reducing migration and proliferation of human mesenchymal stem cells of bone marrow and endothelial progenitor cells. Polyethylene terephthalate can be degraded by physical, chemical and biological methods.
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