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MICRO is a biennial international conference on plastic pollution. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held online on 23-27 November 2020. Authors were encouraged to submit their papers to Microplastics and Nanoplastics. Here we present a growing collection of papers related to MICRO2020.


  1. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the use of disposable plastics, including medical masks, which have become a necessity in our daily lives. As these are often improperly disposed of, they represent an impor...

    Authors: Anita Jemec Kokalj, Andraž Dolar, Damjana Drobne, Marjan Marinšek, Matej Dolenec, Luka Škrlep, Gregor Strmljan, Branka Mušič and Andrijana Sever Škapin
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2022 2:1
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  2. Raindrops impacting water surfaces such as lakes or oceans produce myriads of tiny droplets which are ejected into the atmosphere at very high speeds. Here we combine computer simulations and experimental meas...

    Authors: Moritz Lehmann, Lisa Marie Oehlschlägel, Fabian P. Häusl, Andreas Held and Stephan Gekle
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:18
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  3. Microplastic fibers are frequent contaminants of aquatic ecosystems. Early life stages of aquatic organisms are predicted to be especially vulnerable to microplastic pollution. We hypothesized that microplasti...

    Authors: Anja Bunge (née Rebelein), Ulrike Kammann and Jörn Peter Scharsack
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:15
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  4. Occurrence and distribution of microplastics in different ecosystems have recently become subjects of numerous studies. However, to date the research has focused mainly on marine and freshwater ecosystems and ...

    Authors: Hannes Laermanns, Moritz Lehmann, Marcel Klee, Martin G. J. Löder, Stephan Gekle and Christina Bogner
    Citation: Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2021 1:11
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