Micronanoplastics: From Source to Sink

Professor Natarajan Chandrasekaran FRES, FRSB, FRSC, Director, Centre for Nanobiotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), has made several conceptually important and widely cited contributions to the area of nano-biotechnology. He has made pioneering contributions in the preparation and applications of neem-nanoemulsion biopolymer beads for controlling bacterial infection in hatchery animals under DST technology development, Nanoemulsion impregnated biopolymer films for packaging of fruits to improve shelf life, Nanopermethrin/Nano-DEEPA with biopolymer impregnated fabrics for mosquito repellent, Exopolysaccharide loaded nanoemulsion cross-linked biopolymer nanocomposites as a wound healing gauze, cancer cell targeting using nanoemulsion, nanoplastics particles used in consumer products. Additionally he has 12 patents published in the area of nanobiotechnology, A patent on isolation chamber design for microplastics separation in environmental samples, 278 peer reviewed publications, He has completed 21 funded projects. He is Fellow Royal Society for Biology (FRSB) and Fellow Royal Entomological Society of London (FRES) and Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Dr Ricardo Marcos is an Emeritus professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is an expert researcher in toxicology and has over 358 peer reviewed publications in related fields. His publications have attained over 10, 560 citations and has an H index 66. He has supervised over 45 doctoral candidates and 62 Master thesis. He has high impact publications related to toxicology of micro nanoplastics Dr. Sonia Manzo is an Ecotoxicologist, PhD in Applied Ecology and Senior Researcher at ENEA, The Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, at Research Center of Portici (Naples) Italy. Her research interests are based on the impact evaluation of chemical contaminants and their mixture also in climate-changing scenarios. A special focus was paid to fate, behavior, and toxic effects of contaminants of environmental concern such as Micronanoplastics and nanomaterials and in the assessment of their ecological risk. More, her efforts were also devoted to the Development of new ecotoxicological protocols with diverse test organisms, with a view to implementing test batteries suitable for the assessment of contaminated environmental matrices and to toxic data integration in a synthetic index. She published more than 60 publications (H index 26, total citation >2150, i10-index 36)

• 1. Micronanoplastics, origin and flow in the ecosystem2. Micronanoplastics as climate change amplifiers3. Microcosm models for hazard assessment of micronanoplastics with respect to climate change4. Insights into the role of micronanoplastics in accelerating ocean acidification5. Micronanoplastics induce dysbiosis of intestinal gut microbiota in living beings6. Changes in the community composition of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem7. Micronanoplastics- Potential risks on human health8. Micronanoplastics in the agricultural fields9. Influence on micronanoplastics on the microbial load of sewage10. Composition and Distribution of micronanoplastics in the air11. Interactions and behavior of micronanoplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment12. The hidden threat posed by micronanoplastics leaching chemicals13. Micronanoplastics contribution to global greenhouse emission14. Adsorption behavior of predominant pollutants on micronanoplastics15. Understanding the kinetics and isotherm models of adsorption reactions of micronanoplastics the environment16. Impact of MNP and co-pollutant complexes on the environment Impact of micronanoplastics complexes on terrestrial and aquatic life17. Micronanoplastics in the cryosphere load of micronanoplastics in the polar regions18. Ecological risk assessment of micronanoplastics in the environment19. Are bioplastics a remedy for growing concern of Micronanoplastics?20. Mitigation strategies for micronanoplastics