2023 article
An integrated chemical engineering approach to understanding microplastics
Bang, R. S., Bergman, M., Li, T., Mukherjee, F., Alshehri, A. S., Abbott, N. L., … You, F. (2023, January 26). AICHE JOURNAL.
author keywords: artificial intelligence; biochemical engineering; interfacial processes; microplastic; hermodynamics/statisticaL
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AbstractEnvironmental and health risks posed by microplastics (MPs) have spurred numerous studies to better understand MPs' properties and behavior. Yet, we still lack a comprehensive understanding due to MP's heterogeneity in properties and complexity of plastic property evolution during aging processes. There is an urgent need to thoroughly understand the properties and behavior of MPs as there is increasing evidence of MPs' adverse health and environmental effects. In this perspective, we propose an integrated chemical engineering approach to improve our understanding of MPs. The approach merges artificial intelligence, theoretical methods, and experimental techniques to integrate existing data into models of MPs, investigate unknown features of MPs, and identify future areas of research. The breadth of chemical engineering, which spans biological, computational, and materials sciences, makes it well‐suited to comprehensively characterize MPs. Ultimately, this perspective charts a path for cross‐disciplinary collaborative research in chemical engineering to address the issue of MP pollution.