Microplastic: detection and characterization

Microplastics are directly released into the environment as small plastic particles. These are intentionally particles like synthetic textiles, city dust, tires, road markings, marine coatings, personal care products and engineered plastic pellets. They can be also, result of the degradation of large plastic waste, like plastic bags and bottles, into smaller plastic fragments when exposed to our environment.

We offer:

• development of the correct workflow for each sample, leading to the better particle extraction to link them to likely sources.
• a set of analyzes that include techniques as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX/EDS), optical microscopy coupled to the FTIR/IR Laser Imaging.
• traditional polymer characterization techniques (such as thermal analysis and tensile tests) to detect compare polymer structures before and after fragmentation.