How much plastic have you drunk today?

• Main Authors: Grayson, T., Zhu, K., Amani, R., Aguergaray, C., Broderick, N. G. R., Nieuwoudt, M., Simpson, M. C., Risos, A.
• Other Authors: Asian Spectroscopy Conference 2020
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry; Digital Holographic Microscopy; Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering Spectroscopy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144336
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Worldwide, one in three people do not have access to safe drinking water [1], resulting in the deaths of nearly 1000 children every day. Standard tests can take several days to produce a result [2], by which time it is often too late since the contaminated and polluted water has already been used. Hence, there is a clear need for rapid and specific testing that can produce results in real time. Here, we focus on microplastics pollution in drinking water. A typical pollution pathway is shown in Fig. 1 [3].