Surface-coating-dependent dissolution, aggregation, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation of silver nanoparticles under different irradiation conditions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 10293-10301

  Li, Yang ^a,c   Zhang, Wen ^b   Niu, Junfeng ^a   Chen, Yongsheng ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; PHOTOCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES (AGNPS);

AGGLOMERATION; COATINGS; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC LAMPS; KINETICS; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN;

SILVER;

CITRIC ACID; HYDROXYL RADICAL; POVIDONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SUPEROXIDE; XENON;

AGGREGATION; COATING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; LIGHT EFFECT; PARTICULATE MATTER; RADIATION BALANCE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; KINETICS; MATERIAL COATING; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

CITRATES; FLOCCULATION; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POVIDONE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SILVER; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84884234059     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400945v     Document Type: Article

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