Modeled environmental concentrations of engineered nanomaterials (TiO2, ZnO, Ag, CNT, fullerenes) for different regions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9216-9222

  Gottschalk, Fadri ^a,b   Sonderer, Tobias ^a   Scholz, Roland W ^b   Nowack, Bernd ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL STUDY; ENGINEERED NANOMATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; FREQUENT VALUES; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; NANO-TIO2; NANO-ZNO; PREDICTED ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; PROBABILISTIC DENSITY FUNCTION; SWITZERLAND; ZNO;

AQUACULTURE; CARBON NANOTUBES; EFFLUENTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SILVER; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ZINC OXIDE;

FULLERENES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER; SURFACE WATER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FULLERENE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OXIDE GROUP; PARTICLE SIZE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TITANIUM; TOXICITY TEST; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LIFE CYCLE; PREDICTION; RISK; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SIMULATION; SLUDGE TREATMENT; SOIL; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPE; FULLERENES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SEWAGE; SILVER; SWITZERLAND; TITANIUM; UNITED STATES; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 72849144722     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9015553     Document Type: Article

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