Impacts of select organic ligands on the colloidal stability, dissolution dynamics, and toxicity of silver nanoparticles

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 12877-12885

  Pokhrel, Lok R ^a   Dubey, Brajesh ^b   Scheuerman, Phillip R ^a  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL STABILITY; DISSOLUTION DYNAMICS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL PERSISTENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; POTENTIAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE MODIFIED NANOPARTICLES;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOLOGY; CARBOXYLATION; CHELATION; DISSOLUTION; DYNAMICS; LIGANDS; NANOPARTICLES; TOXICITY;

SILVER;

CITRIC ACID; CYSTEINE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HUMIC ACID; LIGAND; SILVER; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; TROLOX C; 6-HYDROXY-2,5,7,8-TETRAMETHYLCHROMAN-2-CARBOXYLIC ACID; CARBON; CHROMAN DERIVATIVE; COLLOID; ION; METAL NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER POLLUTANT;

COLLOID; CRUSTACEAN; DISSOLUTION; LIGAND; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLLOID; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DISSOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DAPHNIA; DRUG EFFECTS; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOXICITY;

ANIMALS; CARBON; CHROMANS; CITRATES; COLLOIDS; CYSTEINE; DAPHNIA; IONS; LIGANDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; SILVER; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84888260365     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403462j     Document Type: Article

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