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Microplastics are pervasive pollutants that pose threats to the environment and human health. Detecting them reliably represents a crucial step toward finding solutions. While traditional techniques like vibrational and mass spectroscopies…
Microplastics are increasingly recognized as a global environmental health threat, yet their detection and characterization remain constrained by the cost, form factor, and throughput of existing analytical tools. Portable…
The detection and classification of microplastics in water remain a significant challenge due to their diverse properties and the limitations of traditional optical methods. Standard spectroscopic techniques often suffer from the strong…
Rapid identification of microparticles in liquid is an important problem in environmental and biomedical applications such as for microplastic detection in water sources and physiological fluids. Existing spectro-scopic techniques are…
Microplastic pollution studies depend on reliable identification of the suspicious particles. Out of the various analytical techniques available to characterize them, infrared transflectance using a tuneable mid-IR quantum cascade laser is…
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Plastic waste entering the riverine harms local ecosystems leading to negative ecological and economic impacts. Large parcels of plastic waste are transported from inland to oceans leading to a global scale problem of floating debris…
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Plastic pollution presents an escalating global issue, impacting health and environmental systems, with micro- and nanoplastics found across mediums from potable water to air. Traditional methods for studying these contaminants are…
Soil nutrients and water content are two crucial factors that significantly affect agricultural production yields. Hence, monitoring and measuring the water content and soil type are critical requirements. This study proposes a…
Micro- and nanoplastics pose a growing threat to marine organisms, such as reef-building corals. Yet, our understanding of microplastic uptake, interaction with coral tissue, and incorporation into coral skeletons remains limited, mainly…
Accurate detection and analysis of traces of persistent organic pollutants in water is important in many areas, including environmental monitoring and food quality control, due to their long environmental stability and potential…
Studies of biological solutions require high measurement accuracy, the ability to detect low changes in substance concentration, and small amounts of the liquid under test. A microwave complex permittivity measurement technique based on a…
We investigate theoretically the ultimate resolution that can be achieved with passive remote sensing in the microwave regime used e.g.~on board of satellites observing Earth, such as the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission. We…
Marine plastic pollution is an emerging environmental problem since it pollutes the ocean, air and food whilst endangering the ocean wildlife via the ingestion and entanglements. During the last decade, an enormous effort has been spent on…