Consumer exposures to laser printer-emitted engineered nanoparticles: A case study of life-cycle implications from nano-enabled products

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 760-768

  Pirela, Sandra V ^a   Sotiriou, Georgios A ^a   Bello, Dhimiter ^a,b   Shafer, Martin ^c   Bunker, Kristin Lee ^d   Castranova, Vincent ^e   Thomas, Treye ^f   Demokritou, Philip ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

^d RJ LEE GROUP   (United States)

^e WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Health Sciences Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineered nanoparticles; nano EHS; nano enabled products; printer emitted nanoparticles; toner

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM OXIDE; CALCIUM; CARBON; CERIUM; CERIUM OXIDE; COPPER; COPPER OXIDE; IRON OXIDE; MAGNESIUM; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; PRINTER EMITTED NANOPARTICLE; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE; SULFUR; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; POWDER; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONSUMER; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ION PAIR CHROMATOGRAPHY; LASER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOENGINEERING; NANOTOXICOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; POWDER; PRODUCT SAFETY; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POWDERS; PRINTING; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84938380306     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2014.976602     Document Type: Article

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