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When plants and plastic interact

Nature Nanotechnology volume 15, pages 729–730 (2020)Cite this article

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Overcoming the challenges of plastic detection in plants has made it possible to transfer many of the lessons learned from plant–metal nanoparticle interactions to plastic nanoparticles.

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Fig. 1: A plant root interacting with nanoparticles, such as plastic nanoparticles.

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    Fabienne Schwab, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser & Alke Petri-Fink

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F.S. was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (project no. 168187) and Innosuisse (project no. 38515.1 IP-EE). All authors were supported by the Adolphe Merkle Foundation.

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Schwab, F., Rothen-Rutishauser, B. & Petri-Fink, A. When plants and plastic interact. Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 729–730 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0762-x

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