Stream Dynamics and Chemical Transformations Control the Environmental Fate of Silver and Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles in a Watershed-Scale Model

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 7285-7293

  Dale, Amy L ^a   Lowry, Gregory V ^a   Casman, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BYPRODUCTS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; NANOPARTICLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE MODELS; POINT AND NONPOINT SOURCES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WATERSHED SCALE MODELING; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLES;

SILVER;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; RUNOFF; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; SILVER; WATER POLLUTANT; ZINC OXIDE;

CHEMICAL REACTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOBILITY; NANOPARTICLE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDE; POINT SOURCE; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SILVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAMFLOW; WATER COLUMN; WATERSHED; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; REACTION ANALYSIS; RIVER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY; WATERSHED; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

JAMES BASIN; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; RIVERS; SILVER; VIRGINIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84934899727     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01205     Document Type: Article

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