Imaging of engineered nanoparticles and their aggregates under fully liquid conditions in environmental matrices

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3335-3343

  Tiede, Karen ^a,b   Tear, Steven P ^a   David, Helen ^c   Boxall, Alistair B A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aquatic systems; Capsules; Sample preparation; Scanning electron microscopy; Wet imaging; WetSEM

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGGREGATES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD COMPOUNDS; HEMATITE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LIQUIDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

AQUATIC SYSTEM; CAPSULE; CONDITION; ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MATRIXES; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; SAMPLE PREPARATION; WET IMAGING; WET SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FERRIC OXIDE; GOLD; LAKE WATER; METAL; METAL OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER; ZINC OXIDE;

ADSORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; IMAGING METHOD; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGING; NANOENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SAFETY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; SOIL;

ENVIRONMENT; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FRESH WATER; GOLD; KINETICS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TITANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 67649308734     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.04.045     Document Type: Article

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