Differences in soil mobility and degradability between water-dispersible CdSe and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6343-6349

  Navarro, Divina A ^a   Banerjee, Sarbajit ^a   Watson, David F ^a   Aga, Diana S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDSE/ZNS; CDSE/ZNS QUANTUM DOTS; CHELATING AGENT; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; DEGRADABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY; HIGHER-DEGREE; LEACHATES; LEACHING POTENTIAL; LEACHING SOLUTION; LIMITED SOILS; SOIL COLUMN; TOP SOILS; WATER DISPERSIBLE;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CHELATION; CHEMICAL STABILITY; DEGRADATION; LEACHING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SOILS;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM SELENIDE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CHELATING AGENT; EDETIC ACID; QUANTUM DOT; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM TRIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC SULFIDE;

DEGRADATION; EDTA; LEACHATE; LEACHING; MOBILITY; MOBILIZATION; POLYMER; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL PROFILE; TOPSOIL; VOLUME;

ARTICLE; INCUBATION TIME; LEACHING; MOBILIZATION; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL MOBILITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; EDETIC ACID; ENVIRONMENT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOTION; QUANTUM DOTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOIL; SULFIDES; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79960938666     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201010f     Document Type: Article

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