Researchers explored why 𝐏𝐁𝐓, a widely used engineering thermoplastic, has long resisted enzymatic recycling:
💡systematically tuning its semicrystalline structure
💡optimizing enzymatic incubation conditions
🎉𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐲𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐁𝐓 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 when material & reaction parameters are adjusted

Link to Newsletter: www.sfb-mikroplastik.uni-bayreuth.de/en/seminars/...

Topics:
- plastic-associated chemicals from weathering plastics
- insights into the outcomes of the P-LEACH project
- profiles & effects of chemicals from plastics
- custom-made plastics & consumer plastics were studied
- analytical & bioanalytical toolboxes for leachates characterisation

Great to see that data from lake studies can be further developed to understand also other transport pathways of microplastics.

This study provides novel insights into microplastic retention in drinking water reservoirs & underscores the vulnerability of such systems to episodic transport events.

Since its 2021 launch, ToMEx has enabled global researchers to explore, visualize, and analyze microplastics toxicity data for hazard and risk assessment. With rapidly growing literature, an international crowd-sourcing effort was organized to systematically update ToMEx. Important team work💪.

💡 The surface charge of particles larger than 10 microns can't be studied like small colloidal particles using electrophoretic mobility.

Streaming potential method allows to study this crucial parameter for environmental relevant particles!

In this video, environmental scientists Anya Sherman and Thilo Hofmann from the University of Vienna explain the results of their study: ⤵️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3WO...

❓How do cells transport microparticles?

🔎microplastic particles between 1 & 5 µm
💡 first systematic investigation of intracellular transport forces in this size range
💡 first quantitative assessment of the numbers of molecular motors involved
💪new insights how cells respond to microplastics