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Gangadoo S, Owen S, Rajapaksha P, Plaisted K, Cheeseman S, Haddara H, Truong VK, Ngo ST, Vu VV, Cozzolino D, Elbourne A, Crawford R, Latham K, Chapman J. Nano-plastics and their analytical characterisation and fate in the marine environment: From source to sea. Sci Total Environ 2020; 732:138792. [PMID: 32442765 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Polymer contamination is a major pollutant in all waterways and a significant concern of the 21st Century, gaining extensive research, media, and public attention. The polymer pollution problem is so vast; plastics are now observed in some of the Earth's most remote regions such as the Mariana trench. These polymers enter the waterways, migrate, breakdown; albeit slowly, and then interact with the environment and the surrounding biodiversity. It is these biodiversity and ecosystem interactions that are causing the most nervousness, where health researchers have demonstrated that plastics have entered the human food chain, also showing that plastics are damaging organisms, animals, and plants. Many researchers have focused on reviewing the macro and micro-forms of these polymer contaminants, demonstrating a lack of scientific data and also a lack of investigation regarding nano-sized polymers. It is these nano-polymers that have the greatest potential to cause the most harm to our oceans, waterways, and wildlife. This review has been especially ruthless in discussing nano-sized polymers, their ability to interact with organisms, and the potential for these nano-polymers to cause environmental damage in the marine environment. This review details the breakdown of macro-, micro-, and nano-polymer contamination, examining the sources, the interactions, and the fates of all of these polymer sizes in the environment. The main focus of this review is to perform a comprehensive examination of the literature of the interaction of nanoplastics with organisms, soils, and waters; followed by the discussion of toxicological issues. A significant focus of the review is also on current analytical characterisation techniques for nanoplastics, which will enable researchers to develop protocols for nanopolymer analysis and enhance understanding of nanoplastics in the marine environment.
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- Sheeana Gangadoo
- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City 758307, Viet Nam
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- NTT Hi-Tech Institute, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh City 70000, Viet Nam
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia; Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland, Brisbane
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.
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Chapman J, Truong VK, Elbourne A, Gangadoo S, Cheeseman S, Rajapaksha P, Latham K, Crawford RJ, Cozzolino D. Combining Chemometrics and Sensors: Toward New Applications in Monitoring and Environmental Analysis. Chem Rev 2020; 120:6048-6069. [PMID: 32364371 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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For many years, an extensive array of chemometric methods have provided a platform upon which a quantitative description of environmental conditions can be obtained. Applying chemometric methods to environmental data allows us to identify and describe the interrelations between certain environmental drivers. They also provide an insight into the interrelationships between these drivers and afford us a greater understanding of the potential impact that these drivers can place upon the environment. However, an effective marriage of these two systems has not been performed. Therefore, it is the aim of this review to highlight the advantages of using chemometrics and sensors to identify hidden trends in environmental parameters, which allow the state of the environment to be effectively monitored. Despite the combination of chemometrics and sensors, to capture new developments and applications in the field of environmental sciences, these methods have not been extensively used. Importantly, although different parameters and monitoring procedures are required for different environments (e.g., air, water, soil), they are not distinct, separate entities. Contemporary developments in the use of chemometrics afford us the ability to predict changes in different aspects of the environment using instrumental methods. This review also provides an insight into the prevailing trends and the future of environmental sensing, highlighting that chemometrics can be used to enhance our ability to monitor the environment. This enhanced ability to monitor environmental conditions and to predict trends would be beneficial to government and research agencies in their ability to develop environmental policies and analysis procedures.
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- James Chapman
- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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Rajapaksha P, Cheeseman S, Hombsch S, Murdoch BJ, Gangadoo S, Blanch EW, Truong Y, Cozzolino D, McConville CF, Crawford RJ, Truong VK, Elbourne A, Chapman J. Antibacterial Properties of Graphene Oxide–Copper Oxide Nanoparticle Nanocomposites. ACS Appl Bio Mater 2019; 2:5687-5696. [DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.9b00754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Piumie Rajapaksha
- Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
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- Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) − Manufacturing, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
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- Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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Rajapaksha P, Elbourne A, Gangadoo S, Brown R, Cozzolino D, Chapman J. A review of methods for the detection of pathogenic microorganisms. Analyst 2019; 144:396-411. [PMID: 30468217 DOI: 10.1039/c8an01488d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The testing and rapid detection of pathogenic organisms is a crucial protocol in the prevention and identification of crises related to health, safety and wellbeing. Pathogen detection has become one of the most challenging aspects in the food and water industries, because of the rapid spread of waterborne and foodborne diseases in the community and at significant costs. With the prospect of inevitable population growth, and an influx of tourism to certain water bodies testing will become a requirement to control and prevent possible outbreaks of potentially fatal illnesses. The legislation is already particularly rigorous in the food industry, where failure to detect pathogenic materials represents a catastrophic event, particularly for the elderly, very young or immune-compromised population types. In spite of the need and requirement for rapid analytical testing, conventional and standard bacterial detection assays may take up to seven days to yield a result. Given the advent of new technologies, biosensors, chemical knowledge and miniaturisation of instrumentation this timescale is not acceptable. This review presents an opportunity to fill a knowledge gap for an extremely important research area; discussing the main techniques, biology, chemistry, miniaturisation, sensing and the emerging state-of-the-art research and developments for detection of pathogens in food, water, blood and faecal samples.
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- P Rajapaksha
- School of Science, RMIT University, La Trobe Street, Melbourne, 3000, Victoria, Australia.
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Elbourne A, Truong VK, Cheeseman S, Rajapaksha P, Gangadoo S, Chapman J, Crawford RJ. The use of nanomaterials for the mitigation of pathogenic biofilm formation. Methods in Microbiology 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.mim.2019.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Cozzolino D, Chandra S, Roberts J, Power A, Rajapaksha P, Ball N, Gordon R, Chapman J. There is gold in them hills: Predicting potential acid mine drainage events through the use of chemometrics. Sci Total Environ 2018; 619-620:1464-1472. [PMID: 29734622 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2017] [Revised: 11/05/2017] [Accepted: 11/06/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Disused mines and mining legacy require significant manpower to ameliorate the contaminated environmental surroundings following their disbanding coupled with extraordinary funding to manage these issues. Water (pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductance, metals, sulphate) and total suspended solids (TSS) quality are environmental parameters that are affected by legacy mining activity and often require monitoring and rapid response if events (e.g. rainfall) occur which might affect the surrounding areas. In this study, we have monitored a famous mine site in Queensland, Australia for a number of water and sediment parameters known to be associated with acid mine drainage. This study performed analysis of water and sediment over three years, as well as rainfall data. Principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares (PLS) regression was undertaken to investigate the data obtained. It was found that the use of PCA can predict the effect of year and site on the environmental influence of the abandoned mine site, based on the combination of chemical properties and meteorological data.
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- Daniel Cozzolino
- The Agri-Chemistry Group, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia
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- The Agri-Chemistry Group, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia
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- The Agri-Chemistry Group, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia
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- The Agri-Chemistry Group, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia
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- The Agri-Chemistry Group, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia
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- The Agri-Chemistry Group, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia
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- The Agri-Chemistry Group, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia
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- The Agri-Chemistry Group, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland 4701, Australia.
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Anastasi A, Power A, Chandra S, Voss L, Rajapaksha P, Cosford S, Chapman J. DETECTION METHODS FOR FAECAL CONTAMINATION EVENTS: THE GAP FOR AUSTRALIA. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.21139/wej.2016.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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