Sorption of 3,6-dibromocarbazole and 1,3,6,8-tetrabromocarbazole by microplastics

Sorption Behavior and Mechanisms of Organic Contaminants to Nano and Microplastics

“…It was reported that the sorption capacity of NPs was higher, even reaching 1-2 orders of magnitude greater than that of MPs [18]. Zhang et al [34] found that the sorption capacity of PP MPs for 3,6-dibromocarbazole and 1,3,6,8-tetrabromocarbazole increased with decreasing particle size. The reason was that the reduction in particle size increased the specific surface area of the MPs.…”

“…The functional groups of NPs/MPs can affect their sorption behavior. For example, highly aromatic PS shows stronger sorption affinity to PCBs due to hydrophobicity and π-π interactions compared to PE [34]. The sorption capacity of aromatic PS for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is higher than that of other nonaromatic polymers (PE, PP, and PVC) [59].…”

Current Progress on Marine Microplastics Pollution Research: A Review on Pollution Occurrence, Detection, and Environmental Effects

“…Compared with that of freshwater, the adsorption capacity in seawater was enhanced for triclosan, perfluorooctanesulfonate, phthalate esters, and PCBs by microplastics [173,174,180,198], which might be due to the salting-out effect as the solubility of these weak/non-polar contaminants was decreased. However, a decreased adsorption capacity of microplastics with increasing the solution salinity to a certain extent was also reported for some hydrophilic compounds (e.g., antibiotics) [179,184,189,199]. The competition of cations for the adsorption sites on microplastics was reported to be the main reason, which reduced the electrostatic or H-binding interactions between organic contaminants and microplastics.…”

“…Particle size has been investigated frequently. There is no doubt that the adsorption capacity will increase with the decreasing size of microplastics [181][182][183][184][185]. It should be noted here that nanoplastics are receiving more concerns.…”

Sorption of chemical contaminants on degradable and non-degradable microplastics: Recent progress and research trends

“…This line of research has come a long way, focusing on chemical pollutants from a wide range of sources. We have divided the recent progress of the interaction of chemical pollutants and microplastics based on the type of chemical, source or commercial use: Flame retardants (Chen et al, 2019;Xu et al, 2018a;Seidensticker et al, 2018), metals (Besson et al, 2020;Guo et al, 2020aGuo et al, , 2020bWang et al, 2020aWang et al, , 2020bWang et al, 2021;Zhou et al, 2020b;Zon et al, 2020;Zou et al, 2020), PAHs (Li et al, 2020;Lin et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2019;Zhao et al, 2020), PBDEs (Wu et al, 2020a(Wu et al, , 2020bXu et al, 2019), PCBs (Lin et al, 2019;Zhan et al, 2016), PHCs (Qiu et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2019), Phthalate esters (Liu et al, 2019a(Liu et al, , 2019b(Liu et al, , 2019c, personal care products (Dong et al, 2019;Ho and Leung, 2019;Li et al, 2019;Wu et al, 2020aWu et al, , 2020bZhang et al, 2018aZhang et al, , 2018b, pesticides (Gong et al, 2019;Šunta et al, 2020;Tubić et al, 2019), pharmaceuticals (Guo et al, 2018(Guo et al, , 2019a(Guo et al, , 2019b…”