Fourier-transformed infrared (FTIR) spectra of the paper "Untangling the role of biotic and abiotic ageing of various environmental plastics toward the sorption of metals"

The dataset include Fourier-transformed infrared (FTIR) spectra of UV aged and biofouled environmental plastics, used for the publication "Untangling the role of biotic and abiotic ageing of various environmental plastics toward the sorption of metals" (the paper is available at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164807).

The dataset is organized as follows:

-All samples contains metadata considering polymer type (polylactic acid (PLA), polypropylene (PP), and polyethylene (PE)), the type of ageing treatment (UV ageing, biofouling and UV ageing-biofouling), the amount of time (in hours) of treatment and the number of replicate sample analyzed.

-for every sample the raw data (scaled for the maximum absorbance value) of the FT-IR spectrum is given.

Further experimental details are listed in the manuscript text.