- Title
- What have we known so far for fluorescence staining and quantification of microplastics: A tutorial review
- Creator
- Liu, Shengdong; Shang, Enxiang; Liu, Jingnan; Wang, Yining; Bolan, Nanthi; Kirkham, M. B.; Li, Yang
- Relation
- Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering Vol. 16, Issue 1, no. 8
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11783-021-1442-2
- Publisher
- Gaodeng Jiaoyu Chubanshe, Higher Education Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Understanding the fate and toxicity of microplastics (MPs, < 5 mm plastic particles) is limited by quantification methods. This paper summarizes the methods in use and presents new ones. First, sampling and pretreatment processes of MPs, including sample collection, digestion, density separation, and quality control are reviewed. Then the promising and convenient staining procedures and quantification methods for MPs using fluorescence dyes are reviewed. The factors that influence the staining of MPs, including their physicochemical properties, are summarized to provide an optimal operation procedure. In general, the digestion step is crucial to eliminate natural organic matter (NOM) to avoid interference in quantification. Chloroform was reported to be the most appropriate solvent, and 10–20 μg/mL are recommended as optimal dye concentrations. In addition, a heating and cooling procedure is recommended to maintain the fluorescence intensity of MPs for two months. After staining, a fluorescence microscope is usually used to characterize the morphology, mass, or number of MPs, but compositional analysis cannot be determined with it. These fluorescence staining methods have been implemented to study MP abundance, transport, and toxicity and have been combined with other chemical characterization techniques, such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. More studies are needed to focus on the synthesis of novel dyes to avoid NOM’s interference. They need to be combined with other spectroscopic techniques to characterize plastic composition and to develop image-analysis methods. The stability of stained MPs needs to be improved.
- Subject
- plastic particles; fluorescence dyes; identification; concentration quantification
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1472904
- Identifier
- uon:48945
- Identifier
- ISSN:2095-2201
- Rights
- 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 licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence 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 licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Hits: 2862
- Visitors: 2937
- Downloads: 91
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | ATTACHMENT02 | Publisher version (open access) | 845 KB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |