Vinyl chloride oligomers: On the road to understand the potential toxicity of PVC nanoplastics

Esperanza Quevedo; Emiliano Perez-Sanchez; Alexis Caballero; Ana Martínez

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0339850

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Vinyl chloride oligomers: On the road to understand the potential toxicity of PVC nanoplastics

Esperanza Quevedo ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Esperanza Quevedo, Emiliano Perez-Sanchez, Alexis Caballero

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Departamento de Materiales de Baja Dimensionalidad. Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico
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Emiliano Perez-Sanchez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Esperanza Quevedo, Emiliano Perez-Sanchez, Alexis Caballero

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: emilianoperezsanchez@comunidad.unam.mx

Affiliation Departamento de Materiales de Baja Dimensionalidad. Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1978-9406

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Alexis Caballero ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Esperanza Quevedo, Emiliano Perez-Sanchez, Alexis Caballero

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Materiales de Baja Dimensionalidad. Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico
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Ana Martínez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Departamento de Materiales de Baja Dimensionalidad. Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico
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Vinyl chloride oligomers: On the road to understand the potential toxicity of PVC nanoplastics

Esperanza Quevedo,
Emiliano Perez-Sanchez,
Alexis Caballero,
Ana Martínez

Published: January 12, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0339850

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