These include chunks of floating plastic waste that break down ... which are in turn composed of multiple particles known as soft dendritic colloids. Such particles have a reputation for being ...

Colloids are particles that have a diameter of between ... critical behaviour that govern the transition from elasticity to plastic flow and macroscopic failure. To understand and design ...

Airborne microplastics and nanoplastics are increasingly detected in urban environments, with evidence linking inhalation ...

Scientists warn about the combined health impacts of microplastics and ultra-processed foods that contain them in four new ...

It is well known that we eat, drink and breathe billions of invisibly small particles of plastic every day. Still, until now, scientists have not known whether these micro- and nanoplastics move ...

Two new studies published this week shed further, and alarming, light on all the tiny plastic particles that people are consuming every day. A liter of bottled water may contain nearly a quarter ...

About 10% of the detected plastic particles were microplastics, and the other 90% were nanoplastics. Microplastics are between 5 millimeters to 1 micrometer; nanoplastics are particles less than 1 ...

Researchers at McGill University in Quebec, Canada found brewing a single plastic teabag released about 11.6 billion microplastic and 3.1 billion nanoplastic particles into the water. Rice is also ...

A study out of Hawaii has shown that tissues sampled [recently] had significantly higher concentrations of plastic particles in them than the tissues from just 10 years ago. So while it might not ...

The co-authors told Bloomberg that their research on nanoplastics won’t stop at bottled water, and they have plans to investigate why tiny plastic particles appear in tap water and snow samples ...

A group of scientists analyzing global data collected over the past four decades have found a "rapid increase" in ocean plastic pollution since 2005, according to a research article published in ...

The phenomenon of diffusiophoresis causes suspended particles known as colloids to move due to differing concentrations of a ...