Fate of Ag-NPs in Sewage Sludge after Application on Agricultural Soils

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1759-1768

  Del Real, Ana E Pradas ^a   Castillo Michel, Hiram ^b   Kaegi, Ralf ^c   Sinnet, Brian ^c   Magnin, Valérie ^a   Findling, Nathaniel ^a   Villanova, Julie ^b   Carriére, Marie ^d,e   Santaella, Catherine ^f   Fernández Martínez, Alejandro ^a   Levard, Clément ^f   Sarret, Géraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SOILS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; ORGANIC FRAGMENTS; ORGANIC MATTER TURNOVERS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES (AGNPS); SLUDGE-AMENDED SOILS; SPECIES INTERCONVERSION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

SILVER;

ORGANIC MATTER; PENTETIC ACID; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; TRACE ELEMENT; NANOPARTICLE; SEWAGE; SILVER; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; SULFUR; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DICOTYLEDON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC MATTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROOT SYSTEM; SEWAGE; SILVER; SOIL POLLUTION; SULFIDE; TRACE ELEMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; CROP PRODUCTION; DENITRIFICATION; MONOCOT; NITRIFICATION; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; RAPESEED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLUDGE; SOIL; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL TREATMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WHEAT; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; ANALYSIS; BRASSICA RAPA; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHARMACOKINETICS; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; SOIL POLLUTANT; SWITZERLAND; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

AGRICULTURE; BRASSICA RAPA; NANOPARTICLES; PLANT ROOTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; SILVER; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SULFUR; SWITZERLAND; TRITICUM; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84958259879     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04550     Document Type: Article

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