Toward the Systematic Identification of Microplastics in the Environment: Evaluation of a New Independent Software Tool (siMPle) for Spectroscopic Analysis

• Published in: Applied spectroscopy Vol. 74; no. 9; pp. 1127 - 1138
• Main Authors: Primpke, Sebastian, Cross, Richard K., Mintenig, Svenja M., Simon, Marta, Vianello, Alvise, Gerdts, Gunnar, Vollertsen, Jes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2020
• Subjects: wastewater; quantification; identification; micro-FT-IR; FT-IR imaging; FT-IR; Raman; Microplastic; automated analysis
• ISSN: 0003-7028; 1943-3530
• DOI: 10.1177/0003702820917760

Microplastics (MP) are ubiquitous within the environment, but the approaches to analysis of this contaminant are currently quite diverse, with a number of analytical methods available. The comparability of results is hindered as even for a single analytical method such as Fourier transform infrared...