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Circelli L, Cheng Z, Garwood E, Yuksel K, Di Iorio E, Angelico R, Colombo C. Comparison of ATR-FTIR and NIR spectroscopy for identification of microplastics in biosolids. Sci Total Environ 2024; 916:170215. [PMID: 38262536 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2023] [Revised: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 01/14/2024] [Indexed: 01/25/2024]
Abstract
Biosolids are considered a potentially major input of microplastics (MPs) to agricultural soils. Our study aims to identify the polymeric origin of MPs extracted from biosolid samples by comparing their Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) - Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectra with the corresponding near-infrared (NIR) spectra. The reflectance spectra were preprocessed by Savitzky-Golay (SG), first derivative (FD) and compared with analogous spectra acquired on a set of fifty-two selected commercial plastic (SCP) materials collected from readily available products. According to the results portrayed in radar chart and built from both ATR-FTIR and NIR spectral datasets, the MPs showed high correlations with polymers such as polyethylene (LDPE, HDPE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP) and polyamide (PA), determined in SCP samples. Each unknown MP sample had on average three or more links to several types of SCP, according to the correlation coefficients for each polymer ranging from 0.7 up to 1. The comparison analysis classified the majority of MPs as composed mainly by LDPE/HDPE, according to the top correlation coefficients (r > 0.90). PP and PET were better identified with NIR than ATR-FTIR. In contrast to ATR-FTIR analysis, NIR was unable to identify PS. Based on these results, the primary sources of MPs in the biosolids could be identified as discarded consumer packaging (containers, bags, bottles) and fibers from laundry, disposable glove, and cleaning cloth. SYNOPSIS: Microplastics (MPs) are considered contaminants of emerging concern. This study compares two simple and fast spectroscopy techniques to identify microplastics in the biosolid matrix.
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Affiliation(s)
- Luana Circelli
- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Graduate Center and Advanced Science Research Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
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MacDonald R, Sokolenko S. Detection of highly overlapping peaks via adaptive apodization. J Magn Reson 2021; 333:107104. [PMID: 34801821 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2021.107104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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: 09/09/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Accurate peak detection is an essential component of many NMR tasks such as peak alignment, compound identification, and global spectral deconvolution. However, current peak detection approaches are generally limited by their ability to deal with spectral overlap, which has a deleterious effect on downstream data processing. In this work, we present the use of an adaptive apodization strategy that improves the detection of highly overlapping peaks. Sensitivity enhancement is used to identify general regions of interest and resolution enhancement is used to separate overlapping peaks, with parameters for both calculated directly from the data. Further limits on peak width help to reduce false positives. The method proposed in this work has been implemented in an open-source R package called rnmrfind that is available for download on GitHub (https://github.com/ssokolen/rnmrfind). A set of default parameters have been chosen to provide effective peak detection while keeping false positives to a minimum; however, application-specific tuning is possible through the modification of minimum peak width at half height (in Hz) and noise cutoff threshold (as a factor of estimated standard deviation). Comparison to existing packages rNMR and speaq on a series of 1H NMR spectra demonstrates improved peak resolution with little to no apparent drawbacks.
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- Ruis MacDonald
- Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Sexton Campus, 5273 DaCosta Row, PO Box 15000, Halifax NS B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Sexton Campus, 5273 DaCosta Row, PO Box 15000, Halifax NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
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Downes DP, Kasumov T, Daurio NA, Wood NB, Previs MJ, Sheth PR, McLaren DG, Previs SF. Isotope Fractionation during Gas Chromatography Can Enhance Mass Spectrometry-Based Measures of 2H-Labeling of Small Molecules. Metabolites 2020; 10:E474. [PMID: 33233825 PMCID: PMC7699861 DOI: 10.3390/metabo10110474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Revised: 11/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Stable isotope tracers can be used to quantify the activity of metabolic pathways. Specifically, 2H-water is quite versatile, and its incorporation into various products can enable measurements of carbohydrate, lipid, protein and nucleic acid kinetics. However, since there are limits on how much 2H-water can be administered and since some metabolic processes may be slow, it is possible that one may be challenged with measuring small changes in isotopic enrichment. We demonstrate an advantage of the isotope fractionation that occurs during gas chromatography, namely, setting tightly bounded integration regions yields a powerful approach for determining isotope ratios. We determined how the degree of isotope fractionation, chromatographic peak width and mass spectrometer dwell time can increase the apparent isotope labeling. Relatively simple changes in the logic surrounding data acquisition and processing can enhance gas chromatography-mass spectrometry measures of low levels of 2H-labeling, this is especially useful when asymmetrical peaks are recorded at low signal:background. Although we have largely focused attention on alanine (which is of interest in studies of protein synthesis), it should be possible to extend the concepts to other analytes and/or hardware configurations.
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- Daniel P. Downes
- Department of Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA; (D.P.D.); (N.A.D.); (P.R.S.); (D.G.M.)
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA;
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- Department of Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA; (D.P.D.); (N.A.D.); (P.R.S.); (D.G.M.)
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- Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA; (N.B.W.); (M.J.P.)
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- Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA; (N.B.W.); (M.J.P.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA; (D.P.D.); (N.A.D.); (P.R.S.); (D.G.M.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA; (D.P.D.); (N.A.D.); (P.R.S.); (D.G.M.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA; (D.P.D.); (N.A.D.); (P.R.S.); (D.G.M.)
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Yuan B, Zhang X, Kamal GM, Jiang B, Liu M. Accurate estimation of diffusion coefficient for molecular identification in a complex background. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 412:4519-4525. [PMID: 32405677 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02693-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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To eliminate the effects of complex background signals and to enhance the accuracy of the diffusion coefficient measurement, derivative NMR spectroscopy with negligible loss of the spectral quality is introduced based on the customized Savitzky-Golay method and used to construct diffusion-ordered NMR spectroscopy (DOSY). The criterion of the method was established by simulations. The application of this method on mouse urine and serum showed that the accuracy and precision of diffusion coefficient measurements in a complex background were improved to enhance the identification of molecules. Graphical abstract Diffusion-ordered NMR spectroscopy is a powerful tool for analyzing complex mixtures. To improve the accuracy of diffusion coefficient measurement, the magnitude of complex derivative spectra is introduced as a post-processing method to eliminate the effects of background signals, broad signals, or distorted baseline. And thus, accurate estimate of the diffusion coefficient is ensured to enhance the molecule identification.
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- Bin Yuan
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Center for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Center for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, 64200, Pakistan
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Center for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Center for Magnetic Resonance, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China.
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
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Magdy N, Ayad MF. Two smart spectrophotometric methods for the simultaneous estimation of Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in combined dosage form. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2015; 137:685-691. [PMID: 25255481 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2014.08.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2014] [Revised: 08/09/2014] [Accepted: 08/23/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Two simple, accurate, precise, sensitive and economic spectrophotometric methods were developed for the simultaneous determination of Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in fixed dose combination products without prior separation. The first method depends on a new chemometrics-assisted ratio spectra derivative method using moving window polynomial least square fitting method (Savitzky-Golay filters). The second method is based on a simple modification for the ratio subtraction method. The suggested methods were validated according to USP guidelines and can be applied for routine quality control testing.
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- Nancy Magdy
- Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Egypt
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- Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Egypt
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