How physico-chemical characteristics of nanoparticles cause their toxicity: Complex and unresolved interrelations

Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-38

  Luyts, Katrien ^a   Napierska, Dorota ^a   Nemery, Ben ^a   Hoet, Peter H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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NANOPARTICLE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOXICOKINETICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 84874453793     PISSN: 20507887     EISSN: 20507895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2em30237c     Document Type: Review

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