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ArticleNature communications2025

Mechanism of quiescent nanoplastic formation from semicrystalline polymers.

Nicholas F Mendez, Vivek Sharma, Michele Valsecchi, Vighnesh Pai, Johnny K Lee, Linda S Schadler, Alejandro J Müller, Shelby Watson-Sanders, Mark Dadmun, Guruswamy Kumaraswamy and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Nicholas F MendezDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2080-3041
Vivek SharmaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India.
Michele ValsecchiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027, USA.
Vighnesh PaiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027, USA.
Johnny K LeeDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027, USA.
Linda S SchadlerDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6406-5247
Alejandro J MüllerPOLYMAT and Department of Advanced Polymers and Materials: Physics, Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 3, 20018, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Shelby Watson-SandersDepartment of Chemistry, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
Mark DadmunDepartment of Chemistry, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4304-6087
Guruswamy KumaraswamyDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India. guruswamy@iitb.ac.in.
Sanat K KumarDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027, USA. sk2794@columbia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6690-2221

Funding

NSF | Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences | Division of Materials Research (DMR) DMR-2301348
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polymers are known to spontaneously produce microplastics (sizes 1 μm - 3 mm) and nanoplastics (10 nm - 1 μm). Still, the mechanisms by which environmentally-triggered Å-level random bond breaking events lead to the formation of these relatively large fragments are unclear. Significantly,

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PMCPMC11953330

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