ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2026
Toward Optimizing Microplastic Transport Models through Biofouling Experiments.
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Abstract
Biofilms occur on all microplastics and are therefore increasingly being included in freshwater numerical microplastic transport models. However, parametrizations of biofilm growth in these models lack experimental validation. Here, we provide empirically supported guidelines and advice for the implementation of biofouling in freshwater numerical microplastic transport models. For a diverse set of microplastics the influence of polymer type, size, and shape on biofilm development was measured in a lab experiment using both mass-based and image-based approaches. We demonstrate how different analytical techniques provide distinct yet complementary insights into biofilm development. Our key finding is that for a model run duration of less than four months which uses pristine microplastics as the input, biofouling only significantly (change of >50%) affects the microplastic vertical velocity for particles less than 10 μ
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