Dissolution kinetics of macronutrient fertilizers coated with manufactured zinc oxide nanoparticles

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3991-3998

  Milani, Narges ^a   McLaughlin, Mike J ^a,b   Stacey, Samuel P ^a   Kirby, Jason K ^b   Hettiarachchi, Ganga M ^b,c   Beak, Douglas G ^b,d   Cornelis, Geert ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Advanced Materials Transformational Capability Platform   (Australia)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

dissolution kinetics; fertilizer; nanoparticles; solubility; zinc; ZnO

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION KINETICS; DISSOLUTION RATES; MONOAMMONIUM PHOSPHATE; SAND COLUMNS; ZINC OXIDE (ZNO); ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; ZNO; ZNO NANOPARTICLES; ZNO PARTICLES;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; COATINGS; DISSOLUTION; FERTILIZERS; GRANULATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SOLUBILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; UREA; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

UREA FERTILIZERS;

FERTILIZER; NANOPARTICLE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY;

FERTILIZERS; KINETICS; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84860337143     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf205191y     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Sillanpaa, M. Micronutrients and the Nutrient Status of Soils: A Global Study; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): Rome, 1982; p 444.
2. Sillanpaa, M. Micronutrient Assessment at Country Level: An International Study; FAO: Rome, 1990; p 208.
3. Mortvedt, J. J.; Giordano, P. M. Extractability of zinc granulated with macronutrient fertilizers in relation to its agronomic effectivemess J. Agric. Food Chem. 1969, 17, 1272-1275
4. Amrani, M.; Westfall, D. G.; Peterson, G. A. Influence of water solubility of granular zinc fertilizers on plant uptake and growth J. Plant Nutr. 1999, 22, 1815-1827 (Pubitemid 29530718)
5. Gangloff, W. J.; Westfall, D. G.; Peterson, G. A.; Mortvedt, J. J. Relative availability coefficients of organic and inorganic Zn fertilizers J. Plant Nutr. 2002, 25, 259-273 (Pubitemid 34186260)
6. Shaver, T. M.; Westfall, D. G.; Ronaghi, M. Zinc fertilizer solubility and its effects on zinc bioailability over time J. Plant Nutr. 2007, 30, 123-133 (Pubitemid 46277623)
7. Westfall, D. G.; Mortvedt, J. J.; Peterson, G. A.; Gangloff, W. J. Efficient and environmentally safe use of micronutrients in agriculture Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 2005, 36, 169-182 (Pubitemid 40534032)
8. Martens, D. C.; Westermann, D. T. Fertilizer applications for correcting micronutrient deficiencies. In Micronutrients in Agriculture; Mortvedt, J. J.; Cox, F. R.; Shuman, L. M.; Welch, R. M., Eds.; Soil Science Society of America: Madison, WI, 1991; pp 549-592.
9. Stumm, W.; Morgan, J. J. Aquatic Chemistry: Chemical Equilibria and Rates in Natural Waters, 3 rd ed.; Wiley: New York, 1996.
10. Borm, P.; Klaessig, F. C.; Landry, T. D.; Moudgil, B.; Pauluhn, J.; Thomas, K.; Trottier, R.; Wood, S. Research strategies for safety evaluation of nanomaterials, part V: Role of dissolution in biological fate and effects of nanoscale particles Toxicol. Sci. 2006, 90, 23-32
11. Sasson, Y.; Levy-Ruso, G.; Toledano, O.; Ishaaya, I. Nanosuspensions: Emerging Novel Agrochemical Formulations; Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 2007; pp 1-304.
12. Tang, R.; Orme, C. A.; Nancollas, G. H. Dissolution of crystallites: Surface energetic control and size effects ChemPhysChem 2004, 5, 688-696
13. Vogelsberger, W.; Schmidt, J.; Roelofs, F. Dissolution kinetics of oxidic nanoparticles: The observation of an unusual behaviour Colloids Surf., A 2008, 324, 51-57
14. Mortvedt, J. J.; Gilkes, R. J. Zinc fertilizers. In Zinc in Soils and Plants; Robson, A. D., Ed.; Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, Boston, MA, 1993.
15. Brunauer, S.; Emmett, P. H.; Teller, E. Adsorption of gases in multimolecular layers J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1938, 60, 309-319
16. Werner, E. A. Urea as a hygroscopic substance Nature 1937, 139, 512
17. Guo, L.; Santschi, P. H. Ultrafiltration and its application to sampling and characterization of aquatic colloids. In Environmental Colloids and Particles: Behaviour, Separation, and Characterisation; Wilkinson, K. J.; Lead, J. R., Eds.; John Wiley: Chichester, U.K., 2007; pp 160-221.
18. Cornelis, G.; Kirby, J. K.; Beak, D.; Chittleborough, D.; McLaughlin, M. J. A method for determination of retention of silver and cerium oxide manufactured nanoparticles in soils Environ. Chem. 2010, 7, 298-308
19. Zhang, S.; Fortier, H.; Dahn, J. R. Characterization of zinc carbonate hydroxides synthesized by precipitation from zinc acetate and potassium carbonate solutions Mater. Res. Bull. 2004, 39, 1939-1948
20. Gustafsson, J. P. Visual MINTEQ, version 2.60, 2009. http://www.lwr.kth. se/English/OurSoftware/vminteq/. (Accessed May 2009).
21. Allison, J. D.; Brown, D. S.; Novo-Gradac, K. J. MINTEQA2/PRODEFA2, a Geochemical Assessment Model for Environmental Systems: Version 3.0 User's Manual; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Washington, DC, 1991.
22. Tso, C.; Zhung, C.; Shih, Y.; Tseng, Y.; Wu, S.; Doong, R. Stability of metal oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solutions Water Sci. Technol. 2010, 61, 127-133
23. Handy, R. D.; von der Kammer, F.; Lead, J. R.; Hassellov, M.; Owen, R.; Crane, M. The ecotoxicology and chemistry of manufactured nanoparticles Ecotoxicology 2008, 17, 287-314
24. Kosmulski, M. Chemical Properties of Material Surfaces; Marcel Dekker: New York, 2001.
25. Shih, Y.-h.; Wu, S. C.; Doong, R. A. The fate and transformation of nanoparticles in water environmental media. http://ehs.epa.gov.tw/Projects/EN-F- ResearchPrjs-Detail/1014. (Accessed February 2011).
26. Kallay, N.; Zalac, S. Stability of nanodispersions: A model for kinetics of aggregation of nanoparticles J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2002, 253, 70-76 (Pubitemid 35388148)
27. Zhou, D.; Keller, A. A. Role of morphology in the aggregation kinetics of ZnO nanoparticles Water Res. 2010, 44, 2948-2956
28. Frazier, A. W.; Smith, J. P.; Lehr, J. R. Precipitated impurities in fertilizers prepared from wet-process phosphoric acid J. Agric. Food Chem. 1966, 14, 522-529
29. Hossner, L. R.; Blanchar, R. W. The utilization of applied zinc as affected by pH and pyrophosphate content of ammonium phosphates Soil Sci. Soc. Am. Proc. 1969, 33, 618-621
30. Gould, W. D.; Hagedorn, C.; McCready, R. G. L. Urea transformations and fertilizer efficiency in soil. In Advances in Agronomy; Brady, N. C., Ed.; Academic Press: New York, 1986; Vol. 40, pp 209-238.
31. Hettiarachchi, G.; Lombi, E.; McLaughlin, M.; Chittleborough, D.; Johnston, C. Chemical behavior of fluid and granular Mn and Zn fertilisers in alkaline soils Aust. J. Soil Res. 2010, 48, 238-247
32. Bian, S. W.; Mudunkotuwa, I. A.; Rupasinghe, T.; Grassian, V. H. Aggregation and dissolution of 4 nm ZnO nanoparticles in aqueous environments: Influence of pH, ionic strength, size, and adsorption of humic acid Langmuir 2011, 27, 6059-6068
33. Degen, A.; Kosec, M. Effect of pH and impurities on the surface charge of zinc oxide in aqueous solution J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 2000, 20, 667-673 (Pubitemid 30236802)
34. Fan, M. X.; Mackenzie, A. F. Urea and phosphate interactions in fertilizer microsites-Ammonia volatilization and pH changes Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 1993, 57, 839-845 (Pubitemid 23700662)
35. He, F.; Zhang, M.; Qian, T. W.; Zhao, D. Y. Transport of carboxymethyl cellulose stabilized iron nanoparticles in porous media: Column experiments and modeling J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2009, 334, 96-102
36. Ryan, J. N.; Elimelech, M. Colloid mobilization and transport in groundwater Colloids Surf., A 1996, 107, 1-56 (Pubitemid 26145426)
37. Kanel, S. R.; Al-Abed, S. R. Influence of pH on the transport of nanoscale zinc oxide in saturated porous media J. Nanopart. Res. 2011, 13, 4035-4047
38. Lindsay, W. L. Chemical Equilibria in Soils; Wiley, Inc.: New York, 1979.
39. Sparks, D. L. Environmental Soil Chemistry, 2 nd ed.; Academic Press: Boston, MA, 2003.
40. Milani, N.; Hettiarachchi, G. M.; Beak, D. G.; McLaughlin, M. J.; Kirby, J. K.; Stacey, S. P. Fate of nanoparticulate zinc oxide fertilizers in an alkaline calcareous soil. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 2012, not supplied.
41. Robarge, W. P. Precipitation/dissolution reactions in soils. In Soil Physical Chemistry, 2 nd ed.; Sparks, D. L., Ed.; CRC Press LLC: Boca Raton, FL, 1998.
42. 2 to yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Toxicol. Vitro 2009, 23, 1116-1122
43. 2 to a freshwater microalga (Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata): The importance of particle solubility Environ. Sci. Technol. 2007, 41, 8484-8490 (Pubitemid 350276460)
44. 2 to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans Environ. Pollut. 2009, 157, 1171-1177
45. Li, M.; Zhu, L. Z.; Lin, D. H. Toxicity of ZnO nanoparticles to Escherichia coil: Mechanism and the influence of medium components Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45, 1977-1983