Emerging contaminant or an old toxin in disguise? Silver nanoparticle impacts on ecosystems

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5229-5236

  Colman, Benjamin P ^a   Espinasse, Benjamin ^a,b   Richardson, Curtis J ^a   Matson, Cole W ^a,c   Lowry, Gregory V ^a,d   Hunt, Dana E ^a   Wiesner, Mark R ^a,b   Bernhardt, Emily S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENTS; NANOPARTICLES;

ANTIMICROBIAL SILVERS; DISSOLVED METHANE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES; EMERGING CONTAMINANT; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; WASTEWATER STREAMS; WETLAND MESOCOSMS;

SILVER;

CHLORIDE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

AQUATIC PLANT; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COATING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; MESOCOSM; METHANE; NITRATE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT; SOLUTE; STREAM; TOXICITY; TOXIN; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; WETLAND;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; CELL DENSITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MACROPHYTE; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; WETLAND;

METAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILVER; WETLANDS;

EID: 84899859092     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es405454v     Document Type: Article

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