ReviewPolymers2024
Current Concerns about Microplastics and Nanoplastics: A Brief Overview.
Review in Polymers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Neurophysiological and Behavioral Effects of Micro- and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Organisms.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Nanoplastics Impair GnRH Neuron Migration and Neuroendocrine Function: Emerging Players in the Pathogenesis of Reproductive Disorders.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Influence of the Presence of a Nano-Sized Filler in the Generation of Microplastics from Polypropylene Nanocomposites.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The role and significance of graphene oxide in the remediation of micro- and nanoplastics from the environment.RSC advances · 2025Review
- Use of Natamycin for the Development of Polymer Systems with Antifungal Activity for Packaging Applications.Polymers · 2025Article
- Artificial Intelligence-Based Microfluidic Platform for Detecting Contaminants in Water: A Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
The widespread and increasing use of plastic-based goods in the present-day world has been raising many concerns about the formation of microplastics, their release, their impacts on the environment and, ultimately, on living organisms. These concerns are even greater regarding nanoplastics, i.e., nanosized microplastics, which may have even greater impacts. In this brief review, although without any claim or intention to exhaustively cover all the aspects of such a complex and many-sided issue, the very topical problem of the formation of microplastics, and the even more worrisome nanoplastics, from polymer-based products was considered. The approach is focused on a terse, straightforward, and easily accessible analysis oriented to the main technological engineering aspects regarding the sources of microplastics and nanoplastics released into the environment, their nature, some of the consequences arising from the release, the different polymers involved, their technological form (i.e., products or processes, with particular attention towards unintentional release), the formation mechanisms, and some possible mitigation pathways.
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