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Residual Monomer Content Affects the Interpretation of Plastic Degradation
Plastic degradation rates in the marine environment are essential to understand. This study demonstrates that in plastic-microbial interaction experiments, residual monomeric and oligomeric content of PA6 significantly influences the development of dissolved organic carbon. While it is well recogniz...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6375983/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30765870 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38685-6 |
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author | Klaeger, Franziska Tagg, Alexander S. Otto, Stefan Bienmüller, Matthias Sartorius, Ingo Labrenz, Matthias |
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description | Plastic degradation rates in the marine environment are essential to understand. This study demonstrates that in plastic-microbial interaction experiments, residual monomeric and oligomeric content of PA6 significantly influences the development of dissolved organic carbon. While it is well recognized that additives in plastics should be considered during the inception of plastic-exposure experiments, residual monomers have yet to be prominently considered in the same light. As such, in degradation studies where residual contents of monomers and/or oligomers are not considered, degradation of synthetic polymers could be significantly overestimated. The substantial conversion of these monomeric and oligomeric leachates also has implications for plastic-biofilm development studies and microplastic-biota-based ingestion experiments. |
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spelling | pubmed-63759832019-02-19 Residual Monomer Content Affects the Interpretation of Plastic Degradation Klaeger, Franziska Tagg, Alexander S. Otto, Stefan Bienmüller, Matthias Sartorius, Ingo Labrenz, Matthias Sci Rep Article Plastic degradation rates in the marine environment are essential to understand. This study demonstrates that in plastic-microbial interaction experiments, residual monomeric and oligomeric content of PA6 significantly influences the development of dissolved organic carbon. While it is well recognized that additives in plastics should be considered during the inception of plastic-exposure experiments, residual monomers have yet to be prominently considered in the same light. As such, in degradation studies where residual contents of monomers and/or oligomers are not considered, degradation of synthetic polymers could be significantly overestimated. The substantial conversion of these monomeric and oligomeric leachates also has implications for plastic-biofilm development studies and microplastic-biota-based ingestion experiments. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6375983/ /pubmed/30765870 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38685-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Klaeger, Franziska Tagg, Alexander S. Otto, Stefan Bienmüller, Matthias Sartorius, Ingo Labrenz, Matthias Residual Monomer Content Affects the Interpretation of Plastic Degradation |
title | Residual Monomer Content Affects the Interpretation of Plastic Degradation |
title_full | Residual Monomer Content Affects the Interpretation of Plastic Degradation |
title_fullStr | Residual Monomer Content Affects the Interpretation of Plastic Degradation |
title_full_unstemmed | Residual Monomer Content Affects the Interpretation of Plastic Degradation |
title_short | Residual Monomer Content Affects the Interpretation of Plastic Degradation |
title_sort | residual monomer content affects the interpretation of plastic degradation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6375983/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30765870 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38685-6 |
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