PMID- 28449819
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20171219
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1879-3363 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-326X (Linking)
VI  - 119
IP  - 1
DP  - 2017 Jun 15
TI  - The plastic in microplastics: A review.
PG  - 12-22
LID - S0025-326X(17)30111-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.082 [doi]
AB  - Microplastics [MPs], now a ubiquitous pollutant in the oceans, pose a serious 
      potential threat to marine ecology and has justifiably encouraged focused 
      biological and ecological research attention. But, their generation, fate, 
      fragmentation and their propensity to sorb/release persistent organic pollutants 
      (POPs) are determined by the characteristics of the polymers that constitutes 
      them. Yet, physico-chemical characteristics of the polymers making up the MPs 
      have not received detailed attention in published work. This review assesses the 
      relevance of selected characteristics of plastics that composes the 
      microplastics, to their role as a pollutant with potentially serious ecological 
      impacts. Fragmentation leading to secondary microplastics is also discussed 
      underlining the likelihood of a surface-ablation mechanism that can lead to 
      preferential formation of smaller sized MPs.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Andrady, Anthony L
AU  - Andrady AL
AD  - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State 
      University, Raleigh, NC 27616, United States. Electronic address: 
      andrady@andrady.com.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20170424
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Pollut Bull
JT  - Marine pollution bulletin
JID - 0260231
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Marine Biology
MH  - Oceans and Seas
MH  - *Plastics
MH  - *Water Pollutants, Chemical
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Fragmentation
OT  - Marine
OT  - Microplastics
OT  - Plastics
OT  - Surface ablation
EDAT- 2017/04/30 06:00
MHDA- 2017/12/20 06:00
CRDT- 2017/04/29 06:00
PHST- 2016/11/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/01/29 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/01/30 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/04/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/12/20 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/04/29 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0025-326X(17)30111-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.082 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Pollut Bull. 2017 Jun 15;119(1):12-22. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.082. 
      Epub 2017 Apr 24.