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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 219, Issue -, Pages 132-138Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.09.080
Keywords
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles; Aggregation; Deposition; Natural water properties; Linear regression analysis
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- Maa- ja Vesitekniikan Tuki ry
- Ministry of Environment
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With the increasing usage of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (NPs), their release into the environment makes it important to understand their transport, fate and behaviour in natural waters. In this study, aggregation and deposition of TiO2 NPs were studied during a 3-h period by using a dynamic light scattering instrument and a UV-vis spectrophotometer, respectively. TiO2 NPs were spiked in 34 lake and 5 brackish water samples at an initial concentration of 10 mg L-1. Depending on the physicochemical properties of the natural waters, TiO2 NPs exhibited different colloidal stability. In brackish waters With high salinity, TiO2 NPs were prone to aggregate and settled rapidly. Whereas under conditions of humid and humus-poor lake waters, TiO2 NPs were suspended in water column for a longer time without remarkable change in particle size and concentration. Deposition likely occurred in nutrient-rich lakes which had high amount of nitrogen and phosphorus accompanied by high values of conductivity, alkalinity, pH and turbidity. Linear regression analysis revealed the statistically significant relationships (p <= 0.008) between the TiO2 NPs stability and these water properties. Our study makes a better understanding of the water properties that control the aggregation and deposition of TiO2 NPs in complex natural waters. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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