New CRC 1357 Publication
How long do nanoplastic particles stay in sediments? Taotao Lu & co-authors explore this question in their new publication "Relevance of Iron Oxyhydroxide and Pore Water Chemistry on the Mobility of Nanoplastic Particles in Water-Saturated Porous Media Environments". ...more
New CRC 1357 publication
Polymers are turning 100 years old! The success story of plastics is closely linked to plastic pollution. Is this solely a material problem? Millican & Agarwal shed light on this question in their new publication: "Plastic Pollution: A Material Problem? ...more
New Book Chapter published
Christian Laforsch, Anja Ramsperger, Simona Mondellini from the University of Bayreuth and Tamara Galloway from the University of Exceter have published a joint book chapter: "Microplastics: A Novel Suite of Environmental Contaminants but Present for Decades" in the book Regulatory Toxicology. ...more
New CRC 1357 Project
The DFG is funding a new CRC 1357 sub-project. Prof. Eva Lehndorff and Prof. Tillmann Lüders and their team are investigating microplastics in the rhizosphere of crop plants and are interested in the effects on physical, chemical and microbiological processes in the soil. ...more
New CRC 1357 publication
How are microplastics extracted from soil samples, purified and analysed spectroscopically? Julia Möller and her co-authors answer this in the new Environmental Chemistry publication "Tackling the Challenge of Extracting Microplastics from Soils: A Protocol to Purify Soil Samples for Spectroscopic Analysis". ...more
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We are now part of the "Tweetosphere": Information from, for and around the Collaborative Research Center 1357 Microplastics can now be found on Twitter. Follow us! ...more
