A novel and simple method for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) nanoparticle production

Abstract

Common plastics, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), as pollutants in aquatic environments in the form of micro/nanoparticles are of environmental and public health concern.

Nanoplastic from mechanically degraded primary and secondary microplastics for environmental assessments

“…The improvement compared to previously described PSLs was the use of PE and bio-resource surfactants [35]. Rodriguez-Hernandez et al also used nanoprecipitation to produce polyethylene terephthalate (PET) nanoplastics from fine chips of PET [36]. Mitrano et al synthesized metal-doped nanoplastics to be used as tracers.…”

Fluorescent plastic nanoparticles to track their interaction and fate in physiological environments

“…The absence of more extensive risk assessment studies is perhaps related to the fact that researchers' access to nanoparticles of relevant plastics, particularly those that include a label for specific analytical 4 methods, has been limited. A few groups have studied plastic nanoparticles made of polymers other than PS, and reported the creation of PET or PVC particles through laser ablation [31,32] or PET, PE, and Nylon particles via chemical re-precipitation or microemulsions [33][34][35]. Some additional work has been done involving the chemical synthesis of PP particles [36] and the generation of PE particles through mechanical means [37].…”

Characterization of polyethylene terephthalate wastes/Acrylonitril-Butadiene styrene (PETW/ABS) composites with applications of artificial neural networks

“…Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most commonly produced polymers and is known as the number one plastic because of having high clarity, high strength, toughness, high diffusive resistance, structural resilience, its non-permeable to gases and moisture and very low weight. PET is widely used as a packaging material for soft drink bottles, food packaging, and other household products [1][2][3][4][5][6]. A series of activated carbons (ACs) were prepared from PET, the best AC was obtained by using a 700℃ temperature and 5 h of carbonization period [7].…”