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Rapid Microplastic Analysis

by Microparticle Radars

Ramp-Up

This is the web page of ERC Proof-of-Concept project Ramp-Up  funded by European Union through Project Number: 101113438

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Mission

Microplastics pollution is becoming increasingly problematic due to its involvement in a myriad of health problems and its effects on natural wildlife. Water agencies across the globe are progressively implementing screening policies for drinking water to address this issue. However, this is proving to be challenging since the existing monitoring technologies are labor intensive and time-consuming with low throughput. To address the issue, we propose a new flow-through sensor that builds upon technologies that were developed during our main ERC project.

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Action Updates

  • A team of 6 engineers from various R&D Departments of Arcelik / Beko has visited our group to discuss about microplastic detection in various scenarios [11.3.2024]. 

  • Bilkent News Story for our microplastic detection work and the PoC project. 

  • Our project and results on microplastics are highlighted in media. 

  • Two members of our team joined Curios2024 Merck Hackathon focusing on developing solutions to Microplastics problem. The Hackathon team we contributed got the 3rd place award.  

  • [13.11.2024] Today we visited YEA Education and Research Hospital to donate blood samples for microplastic analysis. We have also checked out the hematology instrumentation closely. We are grateful to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhat Çelik and his hematology team and colleagues. 

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  •  New preprint online showing differentiation between two types of microplastic samples: Polystyrene and Polyethylene. Link to preprint.​

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  • Our technique is listed among the tools in Plastiverse - the information hub for plastic pollution. ​




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  • Our work on differentiating between different types of microplastics using rapid electronic detection is now published in ACS Sensors (open access). You can reach the paper from this link. 

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Data Management Plan

All the data created within the project will be made accessible through the Zenodo Platform. 

 

The link for the data management plan version 1 can be accessed here. 

 

Data Set Links

1. The dataset for the paper Rapid Differentiation between Microplastic Particles Using Integrated Microwave Cytometry with 3D Electrodes 
ACS Sensors (2025): 

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https://zenodo.org/records/15055040

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