Safety assessment of graphene-based materials: focus on human health and the environment

B Fadeel, C Bussy, S Merino, E Vázquez, E Flahaut… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Graphene and its derivatives are heralded as “miracle” materials with manifold applications
in different sectors of society from electronics to energy storage to medicine. The increasing …

Trends, risks and opportunities in environmental nanotechnology

X Huang, M Auffan, MJ Eckelman… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs), intentionally synthesized materials with sizes less than
100 nm in at least one dimension, have numerous potential environmental applications …

Penetration and toxicity of nanomaterials in higher plants

G Chichiriccò, A Poma - Nanomaterials, 2015 - mdpi.com
Nanomaterials (NMs) comprise either inorganic particles consisting of metals, oxides, and
salts that exist in nature and may be also produced in the laboratory, or organic particles …

Application of nanoelements in plant nutrition and its impact in ecosystems

AB Morales-Díaz, H Ortega-Ortíz… - Advances in Natural …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Agriculture stands to benefit from nanotechnology in areas such as combating pests and
pathogens, regulating the growth and quality of crops, and developing intelligent materials …

Gold nanoparticle biodissolution by a freshwater macrophyte and its associated microbiome

A Avellan, M Simonin, E McGivney, N Bossa… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Predicting nanoparticle fate in aquatic environments requires mimicking of ecosystem
complexity to observe the geochemical processes affecting their behaviour. Here, 12 nm Au …

Assessment of Cu and CuO nanoparticle ecological responses using laboratory small-scale microcosms

F Wu, BJ Harper, LE Crandon… - Environmental Science …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Copper based nanoparticles (NPs) are used extensively in industrial and commercial
products as sensors, catalysts, surfactants, antimicrobials, and for other purposes. The high …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of environmental exposure models for engineered nanomaterials in a regulatory context

B Nowack - NanoImpact, 2017 - Elsevier
Exposure modeling is an important tool in the risk assessment process because it can
provide information on predicted environmental concentrations (PEC values) even in the …

Engineered nanomaterials: From their properties and applications, to their toxicity towards marine bivalves in a changing environment

L De Marchi, F Coppola, AMVM Soares, C Pretti… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
As a consequence of their unique characteristics, the use of Engineered Nanomaterials
(ENMs) is rapidly increasing in industrial, agricultural products, as well as in environmental …

High‐energy resolution fluorescence detected X‐ray absorption spectroscopy: A powerful new structural tool in environmental biogeochemistry sciences

O Proux, E Lahera, W Del Net, I Kieffer… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The study of the speciation of highly diluted elements by X‐ray absorption spectroscopy
(XAS) is extremely challenging, especially in environmental biogeochemistry sciences. Here …

Biotic and abiotic interactions in freshwater mesocosms determine fate and toxicity of CuO nanoparticles

T Gräf, V Koch, J Köser, J Fischer… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transformation, dissolution, and sorption of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO-NP) play an
important role in freshwater ecosystems. We present the first mesocosm experiment on the …