Investigating the impact of water-soluble polymers on the metabolic profiles of aquatic organisms and microbes

尽管它们无处不在，但关于水溶性聚合物（WSPs）毒性模式的文献却非常少。持久性水溶性聚合物，如聚乙烯吡咯烷酮、聚丙烯酸、聚丙烯酰胺和丙烯酸共聚物的年产量达到数百万吨，其许多用途与环境排放有关。WSPs的应用包括消费品、药品、油漆、化肥和许多其他行业，如纺织工业。虽然现有的研究广泛表明wsp缺乏急性毒性，但最近有人建议，根据PAM和相应单体的新信息，应该重新检查降解的聚丙烯酰胺单体（PAM）的运输，命运和去除效率。应该指出的是，一些wsp也被归类为黏附聚合物，这为它们粘附在生物膜上提供了潜力。该项目的主要目的是研究WSP影响水生生物和微生物代谢谱的潜力。

Despite their ubiquity, there is remarkably little literature on modes of toxicity for water-soluble polymers (WSPs). Persistent, water-soluble polymers like polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyacrylic acid, polyacrylamide and acrylic copolymers have annual production volumes well into the millions of tonnes, with many uses associated with environmental emissions. Applications of WSPs include their use in consumer products, pharmaceuticals, paint, fertiliser and many other industries e.g. textile industry.Whilst existing studies broadly indicate that WSPs possess a lack of acute toxicity, it has been recently suggested that the transport, fate, and removal efficiency of degraded Polyacrylamide monomer (PAM) should be re-examined in light of new information on both PAM and the corresponding monomer. It should be noted that some WSPs are also classified as mucoadhesive polymers, which provides the potential for them to adhere to biological membranes. The principal aim of this project is to investigate the potential for WSP's to influence the metabolic profile of aquatic organisms and microbes.