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Title Influence of ageing on the vector effect of micro-plastics.
Group Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group
Project type thesis
Credits 24-36
Supervisor(s) Bart Koelmans / Nur Hazimah
Examiner(s) Bart Koelmans
Contact info bart.koelmans@wur.nl
Begin date 2019/09/02
End date 2020/08/28
Description Evaluate the effect of ageing on chemical transfer from micro-plastics in organisms' gut to investigate how much chemicals are bioavailable from environmentally realistic micro-plastics compared to the virgin micro-plastics which have largely been used in most ecotoxicology studies.
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