Suspended particle adhesion on aquatic plant surfaces: implications for 137Cs and 133Cs uptake rates and water-to-plant concentration ratios

Aquatic Biofilms—Sink or Source of Microplastics? A Critical Reflection on Current Knowledge

“…Thus, biofilms are literally ubiquitous in aquatic ecosystems (Battin et al, 2016). Therefore, microplastics—just as a range of natural particles (Graham, 1990; Sansone et al, 2002)—are highly likely to encounter these biofilms. It should be also noted that when microplastics reach the substrate‐associated biofilm, they may already be covered by organic and inorganic matter and/or biofilm, which may facilitate their integration into biofilms.…”

On-line preconcentration and vapor generation of scandium prior to ICP-OES detection

“…The scandium concentration levels in different matrices can be very low, sensitive analytical techniques are required to carry out its determination. 10 Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) [11][12][13][14] has been used for the determination of scandium, however, this method is time-consuming-approximately 3 weeks-and routine analysis of numerous samples is laborious. Another interesting technique for Sc determination is Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS).…”

Transport and fate of radionuclides in aquatic environments – the use of ecosystem modelling for exposure assessments of nuclear facilities

“…BCFs do not involve any fundamental understanding of uptake and transport processes in the environment, as they are empirically derived from laboratory studies or field measurements (Sansone et al, 2002). BCFs are only valid if steady-state in the system can be assumed, which is not always the case (Whicker et al, 1999;Thorne, 2003).…”