Electric forces can enhance the emission of microplastics into air

2025/05/09 by Zhidong Zhang, Pengcheng Li, Weiyin Hu +10 · 1 voice
Engineering · Environmental Science · #Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies #Microplastics and Plastic Pollution #Recycling and Waste Management Techniques

paper · doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126405

openalex publication_date 2025/05/09 · crossref created 2025/05/09 · crossref issued 2025/07/01 · crossref published 2025/07/01 · crossref published-print 2025/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref deposited 2025/11/21 · crossref indexed 2026/07/21 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Citations

• Atmospheric microplastics: A review on current status and perspectives
• Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned?

Discussions

• New study highlights the importance of electric forces, which can enhance the lift of soil #microplastics into air and reduce the threshold wind speed needed for MPs detachment. 🌬️In air, MPs can be [bsky, 5 points, 1 comments]