Good news: our latest paper titled Real-time quantification of nanoplastics deposition in nanofiltration using laser-induced breakdown detection (LIBD) has been accepted for publication in Water Research (2025 IF of 12.8).
What the paper is about
This paper is the first in the series that demonstrates the LIBD’s prowess in membrane research, one year after my paper on LIBD method development was published.
In this study, LIBD was connected to the concentrate line of a nanofiltration system in order to quantify—in real time—the loss of probe nanoparticles during filtration as they deposit on the membrane surface, and the recovery of these nanoparticles when we performed osmotic backwash.
Because LIBD can detect very low concentrations of probe nanoparticles—in the same range of nanoplastics in surface water, we could relate our results to the behaviours of nanoplastics during nanofiltration.