Current applications and future impact of machine learning in emerging contaminants: A review DOI
Lang Lei,

Ruirui Pang,

Zhibang Han

et al.

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 53(20), P. 1817 - 1835

Published: March 23, 2023

With the continuous release into environments, emerging contaminants (ECs) have attracted widespread attention for potential risks, and numerous studies been conducted on their identification, environmental behavior bioeffects, removal. Owing to superiority of dealing with high-dimensional unstructured data, a new data-driven approach, machine learning (ML), has gradually applied in research ECs. This review described fundamental principle, algorithms, workflow ML, summarized advances ML applications typical ECs (per- polyfluoroalkyl substances, nanoparticles, antibiotic resistance genes, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, microplastics, antibiotics, pharmaceutical personal care products). methods showed practicability, reliability, effectiveness predicting or analyzing occurrence, distribution, removal ECs, various algorithms derived models were developed optimized obtain better performance. Moreover, size homogeneity data set strongly influence application choosing appropriate different characteristics is crucial addressing specific problems related sets. Future efforts should focus improving quality adopting more advanced developing quantitative structure-activity relationship, promoting applicability domains interpretability models. In addition, development codeless tools will benefit accessibility

Language: Английский

Micro(nano)plastics sources, fate, and effects: What we know after ten years of research DOI Creative Commons
Steve Allen, Deonie Allen, Samaneh Karbalaei

et al.

Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 6, P. 100057 - 100057

Published: Feb. 24, 2022

The last decade has been transformative for micro(nano)plastic (MnP) research with recent discoveries revealing the extent and magnitude of MnP pollution, even in world's most remote places. Historically, while researchers recognized that plastic pollution was derived from land-based sources, it generally believed microplastic particles (i.e., fragments <5 mm) only a marine issue effects largely impacting biota. However, over progressed rapidly MnPs freshwater, snow, ice, soil, terrestrial biota, air found ocean spray. have now every environmental compartment on earth, within tissues gastrointestinal tracts thousands species, including humans, resulting harmful effects. 10 years also seen development new techniques analysis, re-purposing old technologies allowing us to determine down nano size range (<1 µm). This short review summarizes what key milestones major advances made nanoplastic environment, their fate, decade.

Language: Английский

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Shape, size, and polymer dependent effects of microplastics on Daphnia magna DOI Creative Commons
Michael Schwarzer, Julian Brehm,

Martina Vollmer

et al.

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 426, P. 128136 - 128136

Published: Dec. 24, 2021

The effects of microplastic (MP) pollution on organisms are gaining increasing attention. To date, a variety polymers different shapes and sizes used in ecotoxicology. Although polystyrene (PS) is the predominant polymer type effect studies, it still unclear whether observed derive from itself or certain particle shape size. elucidate specific, we conducted systematic study Daphnia magna by comparing various PS-MPs to nonplastic control particles with similar properties. In chronic exposure experiments, PS beads (6 µm; 20 µm), fibers (Ø 3 µm, length: 75.5 fragments (5.7 17.7 µm) two size classes concentrations (500 5000 ml-1) in-house-produced comparable size, shape, concentration and, if possible, density. most properties did not elicit tested endpoints, sublethal D. life history morphology for small fragments. Interestingly, no adverse were detected any particles. Hence, polymer-specific, related polymer, do result per se.

Language: Английский

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Long-term interactions between microplastics and floating macrophyte Lemna minor: The potential for phytoremediation of microplastics in the aquatic environment DOI Creative Commons
Ula Rozman, Anita Jemec Kokalj,

Andraž Dolar

et al.

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 831, P. 154866 - 154866

Published: March 26, 2022

The presence of microplastics (MPs) in the environment has raised many concerns, and therefore approaches technologies to remove them situ are high interest. In this context, we investigated interactions between polyethylene MPs (fragments with a mean size 149 ± 75 μm) an aquatic floating macrophyte Lemna minor order assess its potential use for phytoremediation. We first long-term effects (100 mg/L = 9600 MPs/L), but still environmentally relevant concentration on L. minor. Subsequently bioadhesion was studied number strength adhering plant biomass were assessed. did not adversely affect various parameters plants (e.g., specific growth rate, chlorophyll contents, total antioxidant capacity, electron transport system activity, contents energy-rich molecules) throughout duration experiment (12 weeks), except week experiment, when protein content capacity affected. On other hand, affected root length during eight weeks while further exposure resulted decrease effects, indicating ability tolerate long period time. adhered rapidly average percentages strongly weakly particles 6.5% 20.0%, respectively, applied. summary, results study suggest that can hotspot concentrations collect from water surface. Therefore, phytoremediation using could be considered as method removal environment.

Language: Английский

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Microplastics in plant-soil ecosystems: A meta-analysis DOI
Yanyan Zhang, Chen Cai, Yunfu Gu

et al.

Environmental Pollution, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 308, P. 119718 - 119718

Published: July 6, 2022

Language: Английский

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Adsorption of organic pollutants by microplastics: Overview of a dissonant literature DOI Creative Commons

Eliza M. Costigan,

Ashton Collins,

M. Dilara Hatinoğlu

et al.

Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 6, P. 100091 - 100091

Published: May 1, 2022

Microplastic formation in aqueous systems is among the inevitable consequences of plastic pollution, which has cascading environmental and health implications. As microplastic sizes get smaller over time, their surface areas increase, creates an implicit, dynamic, inflating new domain, called microplastisphere. This study summarizes critically reviews literature on adsorption organic compounds (OCs), are already our aquatic systems, onto surfaces. investigation a database 91 articles, 68 used analysis for 178 OCs via 770 isotherms. The four most prevalent polymer types throughout polyethylene (PE), polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Our revealed that octanol-water partitioning coefficient, Kow, can be good surrogate capacity some OC types; however, hydrophobicity alone may not necessarily indicate affinity. water chemistry also played notable roles process, evidenced by dramatic enhancement during per- polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) PS saltwater conditions. However, work concluded variability within indicates strong need defined microplastics characterization testing procedures to better represent interactions with environment.

Language: Английский

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Microplastic stress in plants: effects on plant growth and their remediations DOI Creative Commons
Jia Li,

Lining Liu,

Yujing Zhang

et al.

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 14

Published: Aug. 11, 2023

Microplastic (MP) pollution is becoming a global problem due to the resilience, long-term persistence, and robustness of MPs in different ecosystems. In terrestrial ecosystems, plants are exposed MP stress, thereby affecting overall plant growth development. This review article has critically analyzed effects stress plants. We found that stress-induced reduction physical accompanied by two complementary effects: (i) blockage pores seed coat or roots alter water nutrient uptake, (ii) induction drought increased soil cracking MPs. Nonetheless, physiological under four excessive production ROS, alteration leaf root ionome, (iii) impaired hormonal regulation, (iv) decline chlorophyll photosynthesis. Considering that, we suggested targeting redox regulatory mechanisms could be beneficial improving tolerance plants; however, antioxidant activities highly dependent on species, tissue, type, dose. also indirectly reduces altering productivity. However, MP-induced negative vary presence surface functional groups particle sizes. end, utilization agronomic approaches, including application regulators, biochar, replacing plastic mulch with crop residues, diversification, biological degradation, ameliorate The efficiency these methods MP-type-specific dose-dependent.

Language: Английский

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Nano- and microplastics commonly cause adverse impacts on plants at environmentally relevant levels: A systematic review DOI Creative Commons
Laura J. Zantis,

Caterina Borchi,

Martina G. Vijver

et al.

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 867, P. 161211 - 161211

Published: Jan. 10, 2023

Over the last years there has been significant research on presence and effects of plastics in terrestrial systems. Here we summarize current findings nano- microplastics (NMPs) plants, with aim to determine patterns response sensitive endpoints. We conducted a systematic review (based 78 studies) NMPs germination, plant growth biochemical biomarkers. This highlights that majority studies date have used pristine polystyrene or polyethylene particles, either hydroponic pot-plant setup. Based these found plants are widespread. noted similar responses between within monocots dicots NMPs, except for consistent lower germination seen exposed NMPs. During early development, root more strongly affected compared shoot growth. induced adverse biomass length most tested species (lettuce, wheat, corn, rice) irrespective polymer type size used. Moreover, biomarker were across species; chlorophyll levels commonly negatively affected, while stress indicators (e.g., ROS free radicals) respondents antioxidant enzymes) consistently upregulated. In addition, observed at environmentally relevant levels. These provide clear evidence wide-ranging impacts performance. However, as under highly controlled conditions plastics, is an urgent need test realistic ensure lab-based can be extrapolated field.

Language: Английский

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A new quantitative insight: Interaction of polyethylene microplastics with soil - microbiome - crop DOI Open Access
Ying Zhang, Shuo Yang,

Yuping ZENG

et al.

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 460, P. 132302 - 132302

Published: Aug. 17, 2023

Language: Английский

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Microplastics – An emerging contaminants for algae. Critical review and perspectives DOI
Magdalena Podbielska, Ewa Szpyrka

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 885, P. 163842 - 163842

Published: May 2, 2023

Language: Английский

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Microplastic aging processes: Environmental relevance and analytical implications DOI Creative Commons
Gilberto Binda, Gabriela Kalčíková, Ian Allan

et al.

TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 172, P. 117566 - 117566

Published: Jan. 30, 2024

The analysis of microplastics (MPs) in terrestrial environments and the evaluation their environmental risk has gained great attention, owing to increasing evidence for widespread presence soils freshwater sediments globally. Once environment, MPs undergo abiotic biotic processes which alter properties integrity: this process is called "aging" implications fate these contaminants, morphology surface chemistry. Aging may also affect analytical assessment samples: samples likely contain aged MPs, while methods are generally established using pristine plastics validation. This can lead uncertainties quantification characterization. critical review summarizes current trends simulation characterization MP aging laboratory conditions, highlighting limitations knowledge gaps. It discusses challenges induced by samples, providing directions toward possible solutions.

Language: Английский

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