An analytical processing design is proposed to accumulate nano-plastics diluted in water-based solvents and evaluate their individual IR spectral properties.

This review explores techniques used to identify micro- and nanoplastics, including FT-IR, Raman, fluorescence and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopies, electroanalytical techniques, microfluidic systems, and advanced mass spectrometry methods.

Metribuzin herbicide nanoformulations effects.

Our approach lowers the size of nanosized plastics detectable via micro-Raman spectroscopy, exploiting the resonance Raman signal from blue-pigmented, highly abundant microplastics.

The degradation mechanism and eco-friendly by-products were summarized.

Aluminosilicate nanotube is demonstrated as a promising and sustainable substrate for environmental nuclear forensics by virtue of its efficient sequestration and novel assay of fissile materials from aqueous samples at the sub-Becquerel level.

PBCDs enhance antioxidant enzyme activities in rice, mitigating the impact of Cd on photosynthesis, reducing MDA levels. Resulting in lower Cd levels in leaves and stems and alleviating growth inhibition.

Correction for ‘Ionic liquid-assisted synthesis of a novel PANI/ZnWO4/WO3 ternary nanocomposite: a facile double electron transfer photocatalyst for efficient degradation of a herbicide’ by Bapun Barik et al., Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2021, 8, 2676–2692, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EN00563D.

Photocatalysis is an eco-friendly and cost-effective method to realize the purification of ppb-level NO, and the end-product (nitrate/ammonia) of the photocatalytic NO complete oxidation/reduction reaction can be further recycled.