Environmental concentrations of engineered nanomaterials: Review of modeling and analytical studies

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 181, Issue , 2013, Pages 287-300

  Gottschalk, Fadri ^a,b   Sun, Tianyin ^a,c   Nowack, Bernd ^a  

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETSS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

(PEC); Engineered nanomaterials; Measured environmental concentrations; Predicted environmental concentrations

Indexed keywords

CERIUM OXIDE; EFFLUENTS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; SEDIMENTS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; ZINC OXIDE;

(PEC); ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL STUDIES; DETECTION AND QUANTIFICATIONS; ENGINEERED NANOMATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; PREDICTED ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; CERIC OXIDE; ENGINEERED NANOMATERIAL; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER; SURFACE WATER; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC OXIDE;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; FULLERENE; MODELING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILVER; TITANIUM; ZINC;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; EFFLUENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RELIABILITY; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

EID: 84884900832     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.06.003     Document Type: Review

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