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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhu, Xiaoshan
• Tian, Shengyan
• Wang, Chao
• Zhao, Lihong
• Zhou, Jin
• Cai, Zhonghua
• Vecitis, Chad D
• Xing, Baoshan
• Senesi, Nicola

Titel

Ecotoxicological Risk of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENMs) for the Health of the Marine Environment

Ist Teil von

• Engineered Nanoparticles and the Environment: Biophysicochemical Processes and Toxicity, 2016, p.442-473

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) can be grouped depending on the chemical composition into carbon nanomaterials (such as fullerenes and carbon nanotubes), metal oxides (such as nanoscale titanium dioxide (nTiO 2 ) and zinc oxide (nZnO)), metallic nanomaterials (e.g., nanosilver (nAg)), semiconductors (such as quantum dots), and organic polymeric nanomaterials. This chapter summarizes some known facts and discusses future perspectives on ENMs in the marine environment. It presents the release pathways of ENMs into the marine environment and the potential behavior of ENMs, with a focus on their stability and dissolution. The chapter reviews the bioaccumulation and toxicity of ENMs to various marine organisms. Once ENMs enter the marine environment, their stabilities, including dissolution, aggregation, and associated sedimentation, may change based on the effects imposed by the marine environment. The chapter discusses the existing information about the bioavaiability and toxicity of ENMs in marine environment were collected and presents the marine nanoecotoxicology.