Application of Separation Technologies in Microplastic Pollution Management

Dear Colleagues,

In view of the major national needs and key scientific issues in the prevention and control of microplastic pollution, systematic research has been carried out in the aspects of detection methods, interface behavior, migration and transformation, ecological and health effects, and joint research; breakthroughs have been made in new methods, new theories and new understandings; and cutting-edge research in the basic science of microplastics has been initiated. To provide a scientific and theoretical basis for protecting ecological environment and human health, it is recommended that scholars study the separation and enrichment technology of microplastics in complex environments and biological substrates and develop identification, highly sensitive and rapid detection methods and traceability technologies for microplastics, especially nanoscale plastics. The source, pollution characteristics, occurrence state, spatio-temporal change and environmental trends of microplastics in different environmental media have been studied, as have the exposure pathway, bioaccumulation, transport process and mechanism of microplastics, screen highly sensitive and highly specific biomarkers of exposure and effects, study the size effect of microplastics and the combined toxic effect with other pollutants, and explore the correlation between microplastics and harmful health outcomes and the toxic mechanism.

Therefore, it is my pleasure to invite you to contribute a research article, communication, or review to this Special Issue dedicated to microplastic pollution management.

Dr. Hui Yu
Guest Editor

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• microplastics
• environmental separation
• monitoring