Nanomaterials: Applications, waste-handling, environmental toxicities, and future challenges–A review

SA Mazari, E Ali, R Abro, FSA Khan, I Ahmed… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently, nanotechnology is referred to be one of the attractive research sectors in several
countries because of its vast potential and commercial impact. Nanotechnology includes the …

Predicting colloid transport through saturated porous media: A critical review

IL Molnar, WP Johnson, JI Gerhard… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding and predicting colloid transport and retention in water‐saturated porous
media is important for the protection of human and ecological health. Early applications of …

Transport of polystyrene nanoplastics in natural soils: Effect of soil properties, ionic strength and cation type

X Wu, X Lyu, Z Li, B Gao, X Zeng, J Wu… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanoplastics as emerging pollutants have caused growing concerns and posed potential
threats to the environment. Nonetheless, only few studies investigated transport behaviors of …

Engineered nano particles: nature, behavior, and effect on the environment

L Goswami, KH Kim, A Deep, P Das… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Increased application of engineered nano particles (ENPs) in production of various
appliances and consumer items is increasing their presence in the natural environment …

Size-dependent transport and retention of micron-sized plastic spheres in natural sand saturated with seawater

Z Dong, Y Qiu, W Zhang, Z Yang, L Wei - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
A series of one-dimensional column experiments were conducted to investigate the
transport and retention of micron-sized plastic spheres (MPs) with diameters of 0.1–2.0 μm …

Continuum-based models and concepts for the transport of nanoparticles in saturated porous media: A state-of-the-science review

P Babakhani, J Bridge, R Doong, T Phenrat - Advances in colloid and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Environmental applications of nanoparticles (NP) increasingly result in widespread NP
distribution within porous media where they are subject to various concurrent transport …

Transport, retention, and size perturbation of graphene oxide in saturated porous media: effects of input concentration and grain size

Y Sun, B Gao, SA Bradford, L Wu, H Chen, X Shi, J Wu - Water research, 2015 - Elsevier
Accurately predicting the fate and transport of graphene oxide (GO) in porous media is
critical to assess its environmental impact. In this work, sand column experiments were …

Role of surface functionalities of nanoplastics on their transport in seawater-saturated sea sand

Z Dong, L Zhu, W Zhang, R Huang, XW Lv, X Jing… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
The transport and retention of nanoplastics (NP, 200 nm nanopolystyrene) functionalized
with surface carboxyl (NPC), sulfonic (NPS), low-density amino (negatively charged, NPA−) …

Environmental dynamics of metal oxide nanoparticles in heterogeneous systems: A review

SH Joo, D Zhao - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2017 - Elsevier
Metal oxide nanoparticles (MNPs) have been used for many purposes including water
treatment, health, cosmetics, electronics, food packaging, and even food products. As their …

Cotransport of nanoplastics (NPs) with fullerene (C60) in saturated sand: Effect of NPs/C60 ratio and seawater salinity

Z Dong, W Zhang, Y Qiu, Z Yang, J Wang, Y Zhang - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoplastics (NPs) have been identified as newly emerging particulate contaminants. In
marine environments, the interaction between NPs and other engineered nanoparticles …