An integrated chemical engineering approach to understanding microplastics
An integrated chemical engineering approach to understanding microplastics
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理解微塑料的综合化学工程方法
DOI：
10.1002/aic.18020
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发表时间：
2023
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
You, Fengqi
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作者：
Bang, Rachel S.;Bergman, Michael;Li, Tianyu;Mukherjee, Fiona;Alshehri, Abdulelah S.;Abbott, Nicholas L.;Crook, Nathan C.;Velev, Orlin D.;Hall, Carol K.;You, Fengqi
微塑料(MPS)带来的环境和健康风险促使大量研究更好地了解MPS的性质和行为。然而，由于MP在性能上的异质性和老化过程中塑性性能演变的复杂性，我们仍然缺乏全面的了解。随着越来越多的证据表明MPS对健康和环境的不利影响，迫切需要彻底了解MPS的性质和行为。从这个角度出发，我们提出了一种综合的化学工程方法来提高我们对MPS的理解。该方法融合了人工智能、理论方法和实验技术，将现有数据整合到MPS模型中，调查MPS的未知特征，并确定未来的研究领域。化学工程的广度横跨生物、计算和材料科学，这使得它非常适合于全面描述MPS。最终，这一观点为化学工程中解决MP污染问题的跨学科合作研究开辟了一条道路。
Environmental 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.