Effects of Humic and Fulvic Acids on Silver Nanoparticle Stability, Dissolution, and Toxicity

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 8078-8086

  Gunsolus, Ian L ^a   Mousavi, Maral P S ^a   Hussein, Kadir ^a   Bühlmann, Philippe ^a   Haynes, Christy L ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; DISSOLUTION; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; ORGANIC ACIDS; STABILITY; SULFUR; TOXICITY;

AQUATIC MICRO-ORGANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERSISTENCES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HUMIC AND FULVIC ACIDS; NATURAL AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1; SILVER NANOPARTICLES (AGNPS);

SILVER;

CITRIC ACID; FULVIC ACID; HUMIC ACID; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; NITROGEN; POVIDONE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SULFUR; BENZOPYRAN DERIVATIVE; COLLOID; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ADSORPTION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; FULVIC ACID; HUMIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC MATTER; SILVER; TOXICITY;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; DISSOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LAKE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DRUG EFFECTS; PROCEDURES; SHEWANELLA; SOLUBILITY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; PONY LAKE; ROSS ISLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS MR-1;

ANIMALS; BENZOPYRANS; CITRIC ACID; COLLOIDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; POVIDONE; RIVERS; SHEWANELLA; SILVER; SOLUBILITY; SULFUR; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 84936931449     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01496     Document Type: Article

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