Dušan Materić
Dušan Materić is a chemist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany, and the lead author of a recent study revealing significant concentrations of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic Ocean, highlighting the underestimation of plastic pollution in marine environments.
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Countries Mentioned
| Country | Mentions | Sentiment | Dominance | + Persistence | x Population | = Reach | x GDP (millions) | = Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3.00 | 0.05% | +0% | 67,886,011 | 34,724 | $2,700,000 | 1,381$ |
| Brazil | 1 | 5.00 | 0.09% | +0% | 211,049,527 | 196,143 | $1,500,000 | 1,394$ |
| Portugal | 1 | 5.00 | 0.09% | +0% | 10,196,709 | 9,363 | $240,000 | 220$ |
| Taiwan | 1 | 5.00 | 0.13% | +0% | 23,816,775 | 31,256 | $670,000 | 879$ |
| Totals | 4 | 312,949,022 | 271,486 | $5,110,000 | 3,874$ |
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Each country's color is based on "Mentions" from the table above.
Recent Mentions
Taiwan:
Researcher Dusan Materic said that without proper quality-control measures, it is impossible to know whether detected plastics originate from the tissue itself.
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Brazil:
Dusan Materic, a researcher specialized in microplastics, discusses the challenges of determining the source of detected plastics.
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Portugal:
Dusan Materic questioned the science of microplastics in the human body in a lengthy article published in The Guardian.
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United Kingdom:
Dr Dušan Materić criticized the brain microplastic study, calling it a joke due to methodological challenges.
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Switzerland:
Dusan Materic researches at Utrecht University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ in Leipzig.
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Panama:
Dušan Materić is a chemist from UFZ and the lead author of the study on nanoplastics in the Atlantic.
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