Study on the effects of humic and fulvic acids on quantum dot nanoparticles using capillary electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescence detection

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2917-2924

  Celiz, Mary Dawn ^a   Colón, Luis A ^a   Watson, David F ^a   Aga, Diana S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC HUMIC SUBSTANCES; CDSE/ZNS; FLUORESCENCE QUENCHING; FUNCTIONALIZED; HUMIC AND FULVIC ACIDS; HYDRODYNAMIC SIZE; INCREASING PRODUCTION; LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE DETECTION; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; QUANTUM DOT NANOPARTICLES; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FLUORESCENCE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CADMIUM; CARBOXYLIC ACID; FULVIC ACID; HUMIC ACID; MACROGOL; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROKINESIS; FLUORESCENCE; FULVIC ACID; HUMIC ACID; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LASER; LASER METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; DEGRADATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FLUORESCENCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; PHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING;

BENZOPYRANS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETICS; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79953245062     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1031097     Document Type: Article

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