Papers

Camila Q.V. Costa, Inês I. Afonso, Joana Cruz, Maria Alexandra A.Teodósio, Steffen Jockusch, Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy, Deborah M. Power and José P. Da Silva*. Environmental Markers of Plastics and Microplastics. Environ. Sci.Technol. 2024 58, 8889−8898. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c09662

Camila Q. V. Costa, Amir Nobahar,* Agata Egea-Corbacho, Steffen Jockusch, Deborah M. Power, Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy, José P. Da Silva*. Photochemical oxidation of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) microplastics adsorbed on sand and silica surfaces. Langmuir 2024, 40, 21476–21483. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c02281
 

Cover Page

This cover illustrates the contamination of coastal environments by molecules or fragments released after degradation of plastics and microplastics. Many of the released molecules are uniquely related to specific polymer classes. Using these specific molecules as markers allows analysis for the presence of specific microplastics in the environment. https://pubs.acs.org/toc/esthag/58/20.