The toxicity to plants of the sewage sludges containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 436-442

  Oleszczuk, Patryk ^a   Jośko, Izabela ^a   Xing, Baoshan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Nanoparticles; Nanotechnology; Phytotoxicity; Sewage sludge

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; LYCOPERSICON; OUTER DIAMETERS; PHYTOTOXICITY; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; ROOT GROWTH; SEED GERMINATION;

NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEWAGE SLUDGE; TOXICITY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE;

CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIAMETER; FRUIT; GERMINATION; HERB; PARTICLE SIZE; SEED; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; SUGAR CANE; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CUCUMBER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GERMINATION; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; PHYTOTOXICITY; RADISH; ROOT GROWTH; SLUDGE; SOLANUM; SORGHUM; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

NANOTUBES, CARBON; PLANTS; SEWAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; LEPIDIUM SATIVUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR;

EID: 79551535217     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.11.028     Document Type: Article

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