Effect of natural organic matter and green microalga on carboxyl-polyethylene glycol coated CdSe/ZnS quantum dots stability and transformations under freshwater conditions

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3445-3450

  Slaveykova, Vera I ^a   Startchev, Konstantin ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Core shell functionalized quantum dots; Environmental fate; Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; Fluorescence of individual particles; Hydrodynamic radius

Indexed keywords

CORE/SHELL; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONALIZED; HYDRODYNAMIC RADIUS; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; QUANTUM DOT;

ALGAE; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIC STRENGTH; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ALGINIC ACID; CADMIUM SELENIDE; FRESH WATER; HUMIC ACID; MACROGOL; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; QUANTUM DOT; ZINC SULFIDE;

CADMIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GREEN ALGA; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROALGA; ORGANIC MATTER; SELENIUM; SULFUR; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHLORELLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IONIC STRENGTH; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; WATER POLLUTION;

CHLORELLA; FRESH WATER; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROALGAE; NANOPARTICLES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; QUANTUM DOTS;

PARACHLORELLA KESSLERI;

EID: 74249088992     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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