Microplastics and Pollutants

Dr. V. Sivasankar is an Assistant Professor in the Post Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry at Pachaiyappa’s College (affiliated to University of Madras), Chennai, India since 2014. He received his doctorate in Chemistry in 2009 from Bharathidasan University at Tiruchirappalli, India. He is a JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2016 from Nagasaki University in Nagasaki, Japan. His research areas include materials synthesis, microplastics, wastewater treatment and microbial fuel cells. To his credit, he has more than 90 research articles in Peer – Reviewed journals and seven book chapters in renowned publishers. He edited books on Surface Modified Carbons as Scavengers of Fluoride from Water (2016), Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Bio-electricity (2018) and Organic Pollutants – Toxicity and Solutions (2021), Green Chemical Analysis and Sample Preparations: Procedures, Instrumentation, Data Metrics and Sustainability (2023) with Springer. He collaborates and performs research with professors in universities and research laboratories in Algeria, Brazil, France, Japan, Iran and South Africa.Dr. T. G. Sunitha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pachaiyappa’s College (affiliated to University of Madras), Chennai, India. She was awarded the doctorate degree in Chemistry in 2009 from Anna University in Chennai, India. She is interested in the research areas of wastewater treatment, microplastics and catalytic degradation of polymers. She has more than 25 international publications in the form of journal articles and book chapters and also an edited book on Organic Pollutants – Toxicity and Solutions (2021) to her account.

• 1-Microplastics degradation: Macro to Nano scale.- 2-The adsorptive profile of MPs with pharmaceutical compounds.- 3-The adsorptive profile of MPs with textile dyes.- 4-Interaction and adsorption of heavy metal pollutants with microplastics: Causes and consequences in aquatic systems.- 5-Marine MPs and their interactions with living systems: Causes and consequences.- 6-Microalgal interactions with MPs: Merits and demerits.- 7-Qualitative characterization of microplastic and nanoplastics interactions with inorganic and organic pollutants using FTIR, FESEM, Raman and TGA techniques.- 8-The quantitative analysis of monomers and additives in polymers using Pyrolysis GC-ToF-MS technique.- 9-Biotechnological methods for the abatement of microplastics from soil and water systems.- 10-A Sustainable Approach to Reduce Environmental Threats of Microplastics and future research needs.