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Micronanoplastics: From Source to Sink

Interactions, Behavior, and Implications on the Environment and Life

  • 1st Edition - November 28, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Ricardo Marcos, Sonia Manzo
  • Language: English

Micronanoplastics: From Source to Sink: Interactions, Behavior, and Implications on the Environment covers the urgent issue of pollution caused by micronanoplastics (MNP) on the ph… Read more

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Description

Micronanoplastics: From Source to Sink: Interactions, Behavior, and Implications on the Environment covers the urgent issue of pollution caused by micronanoplastics (MNP) on the physiochemical and biological properties of soil, water, and air. Through evaluation and analysis of the latest studies, the authors present the effects of micronanoplastics on climate change and offer sustainable alternatives that mitigate the harmful environmental effects. With the help of diagrams and illustrations of models, pathways and processes, the book will provide the researcher and student a deeper understanding of the topics discussed and offer management strategies that promote sustainability.

Key features

  • Covers the latest research on the impact of microplastics in the freshwater ecosystem
  • Includes case studies highlighting recent technologies and interventions for reducing emissions of micronanoplastics
  • Offers sustainable manufacturing and actionable solutions that address climate change

Readership

Graduate and postgraduate students, researchers

Table of contents

1. Micronanoplastics, origin and flow in the ecosystem

2. Micronanoplastics as climate change amplifiers

3. Microcosm models for hazard assessment of micronanoplastics with respect to climate change

4. Insights into the role of micronanoplastics in accelerating ocean acidification

5. Micronanoplastics induce dysbiosis of intestinal gut microbiota in living beings

6. Changes in the community composition of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem

7. Micronanoplastics- Potential risks on human health

8. Micronanoplastics in the agricultural fields

9. Influence on micronanoplastics on the microbial load of sewage

10. Composition and Distribution of micronanoplastics in the air

11. Interactions and behavior of micronanoplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment

12. The hidden threat posed by micronanoplastics leaching chemicals

13. Micronanoplastics contribution to global greenhouse emission

14. Adsorption behavior of predominant pollutants on micronanoplastics

15. Understanding the kinetics and isotherm models of adsorption reactions of micronanoplastics the environment

16. Impact of MNP and co-pollutant complexes on the environment Impact of micronanoplastics complexes on terrestrial and aquatic life

17. Micronanoplastics in the cryosphere load of micronanoplastics in the polar regions

18. Ecological risk assessment of micronanoplastics in the environment

19. Are bioplastics a remedy for growing concern of Micronanoplastics?

20. Mitigation strategies for micronanoplastics

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 28, 2025
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Natarajan Chandrasekaran

Professor Natarajan Chandrasekaran FRES, FRSB, FRSC, Director, Centre for Nanobiotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), has made several conceptually important and widely cited contributions to the area of nano-biotechnology. He has made pioneering contributions in the preparation and applications of neem-nanoemulsion biopolymer beads for controlling bacterial infection in hatchery animals under DST technology development, Nanoemulsion impregnated biopolymer films for packaging of fruits to improve shelf life, Nanopermethrin/Nano-DEEPA with biopolymer impregnated fabrics for mosquito repellent, Exopolysaccharide loaded nanoemulsion cross-linked biopolymer nanocomposites as a wound healing gauze, cancer cell targeting using nanoemulsion, nanoplastics particles used in consumer products. Additionally he has 12 patents published in the area of nanobiotechnology, A patent on isolation chamber design for microplastics separation in environmental samples, 278 peer reviewed publications, He has completed 21 funded projects. He is Fellow Royal Society for Biology (FRSB) and Fellow Royal Entomological Society of London (FRES) and Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Centre for Nanobiotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

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Ricardo Marcos

Dr Ricardo Marcos is an Emeritus professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is an expert researcher in toxicology and has over 358 peer reviewed publications in related fields. His publications have attained over 10, 560 citations and has an H index 66. He has supervised over 45 doctoral candidates and 62 Master thesis. He has high impact publications related to toxicology of micro nanoplastics
Affiliations and expertise
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

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Sonia Manzo

Dr. Sonia Manzo is an Ecotoxicologist, PhD in Applied Ecology and Senior Researcher at ENEA, The Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, at Research Center of Portici (Naples) Italy. Her research interests are based on the impact evaluation of chemical contaminants and their mixture also in climate-changing scenarios. A special focus was paid to fate, behavior, and toxic effects of contaminants of environmental concern such as Micronanoplastics and nanomaterials and in the assessment of their ecological risk. More, her efforts were also devoted to the Development of new ecotoxicological protocols with diverse test organisms, with a view to implementing test batteries suitable for the assessment of contaminated environmental matrices and to toxic data integration in a synthetic index. She published more than 60 publications (H index 26, total citation >2150, i10-index 36)
Affiliations and expertise
ENEA Portici Institute, Italy

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