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The Relationship between Dissolution Behavior and the Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles on Zebrafish Embryos in Different Ionic Environments
- Source :
- Nanomaterials, Volume 8, Issue 9, Nanomaterials, Vol 8, Iss 9, p 652 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018.
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Abstract
- A silver nanoparticle is one of the representative engineered nanomaterials with excellent optical, electrical, antibacterial properties. Silver nanoparticles are being increasingly used for medical products, water filters, and cosmetics, etc. However, silver nanoparticles are known to cause adverse effects on the ecosystem and human health. To utilize silver nanoparticles with minimized negative effects, it is important to understand the behavior of silver nanoparticles released to the environment. In this study, we compared toxicity behaviors of citrate-stabilized silver nanoparticles with polyethylene glycol coated silver nanoparticles in two different ionic environments, which are aquatic environments for developing zebrafish embryo. Depending on the composition of the ionic environment, citrate-stabilized silver nanoparticles and polyethylene glycol coated silver nanoparticles exhibited different behaviors in dissolution, aggregation, or precipitation, which governed the toxicity of silver nanoparticles on zebrafish embryos.
- Subjects :
- General Chemical Engineering
Ionic bonding
02 engineering and technology
Polyethylene glycol
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Article
Silver nanoparticle
lcsh:Chemistry
chemistry.chemical_compound
General Materials Science
zebrafish embryo
Dissolution
dissolution behavior
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
surface functionalization
Precipitation (chemistry)
Chemistry
technology, industry, and agriculture
silver nanoparticle
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
lcsh:QD1-999
Chemical engineering
Toxicity
Zebrafish embryo
Surface modification
0210 nano-technology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20794991
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nanomaterials
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1fe45728be7402c0fdb301bf321d3391
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8090652