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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Feasibility Study for the Development of a Low-Cost, Compact, and Fast Sensor for the Detection and Classification of Microplastics in the Marine Environment.

Bruno Cocciaro, Silvia Merlino, Marco Bianucci, Claudio Casani, Vincenzo Palleschi

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Bruno CocciaroConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organo-Metallici (CNR-ICCOM), U.O.S. di Pisa, Area della Ricerca del CNR, Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
Silvia MerlinoConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), U.O.S. di Pozzuolo di Lerici, c/o Forte Santa Teresa-Loc. Pozzuolo di Lerici, 19032 Lerici, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4537-2903
Marco BianucciConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), U.O.S. di Pozzuolo di Lerici, c/o Forte Santa Teresa-Loc. Pozzuolo di Lerici, 19032 Lerici, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0276-2813
Claudio CasaniConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), U.O.S. di Pozzuolo di Lerici, c/o Forte Santa Teresa-Loc. Pozzuolo di Lerici, 19032 Lerici, Italy.
Vincenzo PalleschiConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organo-Metallici (CNR-ICCOM), U.O.S. di Pisa, Area della Ricerca del CNR, Via G. Moruzzi, 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6377-7656

Funding

Regione Toscana POR CREO FESR TOSCANA 2014-2020 Programme, Project MARTA CUP 3553.04032020.158000343
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The detection and classification of microplastics in the marine environment is a complex task that implies the use of delicate and expensive instrumentation. In this paper, we present a preliminary feasibility study for the development of a low-cost, compact microplastics sensor that could be mounted, in principle, on a float of drifters, for the monitoring of large marine surfaces. The preliminary results of the study indicate that a simple sensor equipped with three infrared-sensitive photodiodes can reach classification accuracies around 90% for the most-diffused floating microplastics in the marine environment (polyethylene and polypropylene).

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infrared reflectivitylow-cost sensorsmarine environmentmicroplastic detectionmicroplasticspolyethylenepolypropylene

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PMID37112438
PMCPMC10143223

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