Color: An Important but Overlooked Factor for Plastic Photoaging and Microplastic Formation

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVViewpointNEXTColor: An Important but Overlooked Factor for Plastic Photoaging and Microplastic FormationXiaoli ZhaoXiaoli ZhaoState Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, ChinaMore by Xiaoli ZhaoView Biographyhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5671-389X, Junyu WangJunyu WangState Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, ChinaMore by Junyu Wang, Kenneth Mei Yee LeungKenneth Mei Yee LeungState Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution and Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, ChinaMore by Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, and Fengchang Wu*Fengchang WuState Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China*Phone: +86-010-84931804. Email: [email protected]More by Fengchang WuView Biographyhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8595-2243Cite this: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2022, 56, 13, 9161–9163Publication Date (Web):June 21, 2022Publication History Received6 April 2022Published online21 June 2022Published inissue 5 July 2022https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02402https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c02402article-commentaryACS PublicationsCopyright © 2022 American Chemical Society. This publication is available under these Terms of Use. Request reuse permissions This publication is free to access through this site. Learn MoreArticle Views9860Altmetric-Citations9LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail PDF (2 MB) Get e-AlertscloseSUBJECTS:Color,Electromagnetic radiation,Light absorption,Plastics,Quantum mechanics Get e-Alerts