SMEDES, Foppe, Tatsiana RUSINA, Henry BEELTJE and Philipp MAYER. Partitioning of hydrophobic organic contaminants between polymer and lipids for two silicones and low density polyethylene. Chemosphere. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017, vol. 186, November, p. 948-957. ISSN 0045-6535. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.08.044.
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Original name Partitioning of hydrophobic organic contaminants between polymer and lipids for two silicones and low density polyethylene
Authors SMEDES, Foppe (528 Netherlands, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Tatsiana RUSINA (112 Belarus, belonging to the institution), Henry BEELTJE (528 Netherlands) and Philipp MAYER (208 Denmark).
Edition Chemosphere, OXFORD, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2017, 0045-6535.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.427
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/17:00095512
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.08.044
UT WoS 000411846900110
Keywords in English Passive sampling; Partition coefficient; Lipid; Diffusion coefficient; Microplastic
Tags NZ, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Ing. Nicole Zrilić, učo 240776. Changed: 10/4/2018 14:06.
Abstract
Polymers are increasingly used for passive sampling of neutral hydrophobic organic substances (HOC) in environmental media including water, air, soil, sediment and even biological tissue. The equilibrium concentration of HOC in the polymer can be measured and then converted into equilibrium concentrations in other (defined) media, which however requires appropriate polymer to media partition coefficients. We determined thus polymer-lipid partition coefficients (K-PL) of various PCB, PAH and organochlorine pesticides by equilibration of two silicones and low density polyethylene (LDPE) with fish oil and Triolein at 4 degrees C and 20 degrees C. We observed (i) that K-PL was largely independent of lipid type and temperature, (ii) that lipid diffusion rates in the polymers were higher compared to predictions based on their molecular volume, (iii) that silicones showed higher lipid diffusion and lower lipid sorption compared to LDPE and (iv) that absorbed lipid behaved like a co-solute and did not affect the partitioning of HOC at least for the smaller molecular size HOC. The obtained K-PL can convert measured equilibrium concentrations in passive sampling polymers into equilibrium concentrations in lipid, which then can be used (1) for environmental quality monitoring and assessment, (2) for thermodynamic exposure assessment and (3) for assessing the linkage between passive sampling and the traditionally measured lipid-normalized concentrations in biota. LDPE-lipid partition coefficients may also be of use for a thermodynamically sound risk assessment of HOC contained in microplastics.
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GA15-16512S, research and development projectName: Výzkum akumulace persistentních bioakumulativních toxických organických látek do vodních organismů
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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