Chemical transformations of nanosilver in biological environments

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 9887-9899

  Liu, Jingyu ^a   Wang, Zhongying ^a   Liu, Frances D ^b   Kane, Agnes B ^a,c   Hurt, Robert H ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fate; health risks; nanomaterial transformation; photochemistry; selenium; silver

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION; BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CHEMICAL FORMS; CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; EXCHANGE REACTION; FATE; GASTRIC ACID; GI TRACT; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN HEALTH RISKS; ION UPTAKE; MEDICAL LITERATURES; MEDICAL PRODUCTS; MIXED PHASIS; NANO SILVER; NANOMATERIAL; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; OXIDATIVE DISSOLUTION; PARTIAL DISSOLUTION; PARTICULATE PHASIS; PHOTO-REDUCTION; RAPID REACTIONS; SECONDARY PARTICLES; SELENIDES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SILVER SURFACE; SOLID PHASIS; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS; ZEROVALENT;

BIOCHEMISTRY; DEPOSITS; DISSOLUTION; HEALTH RISKS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SELENIUM; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SILVER DEPOSITS; SULFUR; SURFACE REACTIONS;

SILVER;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; STOMACH;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SILVER; STOMACH;

EID: 84870437215     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303449n     Document Type: Article

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