Toxicity of carbon nanotubes to freshwater aquatic invertebrates

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1823-1830

  Mwangi, Joseph N ^a   Wang, Ning ^b   Ingersoll, Christopher G ^b   Hardesty, Doug K ^b   Brunson, Eric L ^b   Li, Hao ^a   Deng, Baolin ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b Columbia Environmental Research Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aquatic organisms; Carbon nanotubes; Invertebrate; Nanomaterials; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CARBON-BASED; CHIRONOMUS; COMMERCIAL SOURCES; HYALELLA AZTECA; INVERTEBRATE; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; OUTER SURFACE; TEST ORGANISMS; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMALS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

TOXICITY;

ACID; CHROMIUM; COBALT; FRESH WATER; IRON; MOLYBDENUM; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NICKEL; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ACCUMULATION; AMPHIPOD; ANNELID; BIVALVE; CARBON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE; NICKEL; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY; TOXICITY TEST;

AMPHIPODA; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS DILUTUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYALELLA AZTECA; INVERTEBRATE; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; MICROSCOPY; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCHAETA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY TESTING; ULTRASOUND; VILLOSA IRIS; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL;

AMPHIPODA; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CHIRONOMIDAE; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; METALS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NICKEL; OLIGOCHAETA; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS DILUTUS; HYALELLA AZTECA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; VILLOSA IRIS;

EID: 84863999910     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1888     Document Type: Article

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