Regulatory ecotoxicity testing of engineered nanoparticles: Are the results relevant to the natural environment?

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 583-592

  Park, Sujung ^a,b   Woodhall, James ^b   Ma, Guibin ^c   Veinot, Jonathan G C ^c,d   Cresser, Malcolm S ^a   Boxall, Alistair B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Gold nanoparticle; Humic acid; Natural water; Standard ecotoxicity test media; Surface charge

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; HUMIC ACID; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; MACROPHYTE; NANOENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHIPODA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARACEAE; DAPHNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOLD; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84890398929     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2013.818173     Document Type: Article

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