Monitorization of polyamide microplastics weathering using attenuated total reflectance and microreflectance infrared spectrometry
V. Fernández-González,J. M. Andrade,Borja Ferreiro,Purificación López-Mahía,Soledad Muniategui-Lorenzo +4 more
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TL;DR: In this article, the evolution of six band ratios related to the chemical evolution of polyamide polyamide (nylon) microplastics was analyzed using infrared spectra (ATR and microreflectance) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
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About: This article is published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. The article was published on 10 Jul 2021. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Microplastics.
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