To request the service, click on the following link: Microplastics Analysis Request

External users must register at the following link: CAU INMAR Registration

For more information, please contact the research staff: elisa.marti@uca.es

About the service

The global use and disposal of plastic materials has led to find them as small-degraded pieces (microplastics) in different environments (water, sediment, air, biota, and others). In order to analyse this kind of plastic items, we offer consulting and analysis services to provide their chemical characterization. Based on plastic size of interest, we propose two analytical approaches:

• Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with ATR accessory (ATR-FTIR) for plastic items bigger than 0.5 mm.
• Micro-FTIR spectroscopy based on chemical imaging for plastic items smaller than 0.5 mm (μFTIR with IR-compatible filters).

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