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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 5, Pages 1282-1286Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es8023594
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia, Portugal [SFRH/BPD/37731/2007]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Fonds quebecois de la recherche Sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT)
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/37731/2007] Funding Source: FCT
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The increasing use of nanomaterials in consumer products has led to increased concerns about their potential environmental and health impacts. To better understand the transport, fate, and behavior of nanoparticles in aquatic systems, it is essential to understand their interactions with different components of natural waters including natural organic matter over a broad range of physicochemical conditions. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy was used to determine the diffusion coefficients of TiO(2) nanoparticles having a nominal size of 5 nm. The effects of a various concentrations of the Suwannee River Fulvic Acid (SRFA) and the roles of pH and ionic strength were evaluated. Aggregation of the bare TiO(2) nanoparticles increased for pH values near the zero point of charge. At any given pH, an increase in ionic strength generally resulted in increased aggregation. Furthermore, conditions which favored adsorption of the SRFA resulted in less aggregation of the TiO(2) nanoparticles, presumably due to increased steric repulsion. Under the conditions studied here, nanoparticle dispersions were often stable for environmentally relevant conditions of SRFA, pH, and ionic strength, suggesting that in the natural environment, TiO(2) dispersion might occur to a greater extent than expected.
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