Recent Research Advances in Microplastics in Water and the Environment
A special issue of Hydrology (ISSN 2306-5338). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources and Risk Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 429
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrology; water resources; microplastics; climate change
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Interests: interface sciences; catalysis; nanoscale chemical mapping and hyperspectral imaging
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microplastics have been found in abundance across the environment, from remote mountains to the deepest ocean. Scientists are still trying to understand the fate and transport of these human-made pollutants once they are released into the environment. Microplastic research is highly interdisciplinary, employing approaches from field observations and laboratory and bench scale experimentation to computational modeling. However, there are currently many research gaps, such as the lack of a standard analysis procedure, the lower quality of the reported data, and the lack of a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of the fate and transport of this type of pollutant in water systems and the terrestrial environment, highlighting the importance of this research area.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to provide insights into these research gaps.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Summary of current and emerging challenges in microplastic research in water bodies;
- Novel approaches to collect and analyze microplastic particles in water bodies and the environment;
- Hydrological simulation of microplastic transport and delivery at the watershed scale;
- Fate and transport of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems and the terrestrial environment.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Bangshuai Han
Dr. Samuel Tenney
Dr. Mathew D. Simpson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fate and transport
- microplastic pollution
- experiment
- modeling
- water bodies
- watershed
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