Physicochemical determinants of multiwalled carbon nanotube bacterial cytotoxicity

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 7528-7534

  Kang, Seoktae ^a   Mauter, Meagan S ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ANNEALING; BACTERIOLOGY; CARBON; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CYTOTOXICITY; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; TOXICITY;

ACID TREATMENTS; BACTERIAL SYSTEMS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CARBON-BASED; CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; DRY OXIDATION; FUNCTIONALIZATION; MULTI-WALLED; NANO-MATERIALS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL MODIFICATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CYTOTOXICITY;

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL;

ANNEALING; BACTERIUM; CARBON; CYTOLOGY; OXIDATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL CONTACT; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PURIFICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ACID TREATMENTS; BACTERIAL SYSTEMS; CARBON-BASED; DRY OXIDATION; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL MODIFICATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY;

EID: 54749125053     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8010173     Document Type: Article

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