Transfer of gold nanoparticles from the water column to the estuarine food web

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 441-444

  Ferry, John L ^a   Craig, Preston ^a   Hexel, Cole ^a   Sisco, Patrick ^a   Frey, Rebecca ^a   Pennington, Paul L ^b   Fulton, Michael H ^b   Scott, I Geoff ^b   Decho, Alan W ^a   Kashiwada, Shosaku ^a   Murphy, Catherine J ^a   Shaw, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BIOFILMS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MOLLUSCS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMONS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; SHELLFISH;

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; FOOD WEBS; GOLD NANOROD; MARINE FOOD WEB; MESOCOSMS; SEDIMENT PHASIS; SINGLE-DOSE; WATER COLUMNS;

GOLD NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; NANOROD; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CLAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; FISH; FOOD WEB; LABORATORY; MESOCOSM; MICROORGANISM; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAGRASS; SEDIMENT; SHRIMP; SNAIL; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 67651204434     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.157     Document Type: Article

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