Engineered nanomaterials in water and soils: A risk quantification based on probabilistic exposure and effect modeling

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1278-1287

  Gottschalk, Fadri ^a   Kost, Elias ^a   Nowack, Bernd ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Engineered nanomaterial; Predicted environmental concentrations; Probabilistic species sensitivity distributions; Risk estimation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; NANOMATERIAL; PREDICTED ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; RISK ESTIMATION; SEWAGE-TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT; SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TRANSFORMATION REACTIONS;

AGGLOMERATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EFFLUENTS; FULLERENES; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SILVER; SOILS; SURFACE WATERS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

RISK PERCEPTION;

CARBON NANOTUBE; FULLERENE; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SURFACE WATER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WATER; ZINC OXIDE;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SURFACE WATER; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISSOLUTION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; NANOENGINEERING; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SLUDGE TREATMENT; SOIL; SPECIES;

ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRESH WATER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84876996242     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2177     Document Type: Article

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