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Plastics are ubiquitous in our society, found in packaging and bottles as well as making up more than 18% of solid waste in landfills. Many of these plastics also make their way into the oceans, w ...

A team of researchers led by Young-Shin Jun at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis found that nanoplastics facilitate formation of manganese oxide on polystyrene nanoparticles.

Polystyrene-derived nanoplastics have been found to facilitate the formation of manganese oxide, which can affect the fate and transport of organic contaminants in natural and engineering water systems.