Aggregation of titanium dioxide nanoparticles: Role of a fulvic acid

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1282-1286

  Domingos, Rute F ^a   Tufenkji, Nathalie ^b   Wilkinson, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SYSTEMS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPIES; FULVIC ACIDS; HEALTH IMPACTS; NANO-MATERIALS; NANO-PARTICLE DISPERSIONS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; NATURAL WATERS; PH VALUES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; STERIC REPULSIONS; SUWANNEE RIVER FULVIC ACIDS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOPARTICLES; ZERO POINT OF CHARGES;

ADSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; IONIC STRENGTH; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANIC ACIDS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

PH EFFECTS;

FULVIC ACID; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC MATTER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

AGGREGATION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FULVIC ACID; OXIDE; PH; TITANIUM; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; IONIC STRENGTH; PH; SPECTROSCOPY;

BENZOPYRANS; DIFFUSION; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOPARTICLES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RIVERS; TITANIUM;

EID: 64349100212     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8023594     Document Type: Article

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