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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 24, Pages 14315-14323Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es403558c
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- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [W912HZ-09-0163, W912HZ-12-P-0283]
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Expanded use of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in consumer products increases the potential for environmental release and unintended biological exposures. As a result, measurement techniques are needed to accurately quantify ENP size, mass, and particle number distributions in biological matrices. This work combines single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICPMS) with tissue extraction to quantify and characterize metallic ENPs in environmentally relevant biological tissues for the first time. ENPs were extracted from tissues via alkaline digestion using tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH). Method development was performed using ground beef and was verified in Daphnia magna and Lumbriculus variegatus. ENPs investigated include 100 and 60 nm Au and Ag stabilized by polyvynylpyrrolidone (PVP). Mass- and number-based recovery of spiked Au and Ag ENPs was high (83-121%) from all tissues tested. Additional experiments suggested ENP mixtures (60 and 100 nm Ag ENPs) could be extracted and quantitatively analyzed. Biological exposures were also conducted to verify the applicability of the method for aquatic organisms. Size distributions and particle number concentrations were determined for ENPs extracted from D. magna exposed to 98 mu g/L 100 tun Au and 4.8 mu g/L 100 nm Ag ENPs. The D. magna nanoparticulate body burden for Au ENP uptake was 613 +/- 230 mu g/kg(ww) while the measured nanoparticulate body burden for D. magna exposed to Ag ENPs was 59 +/- 52 mu g/kg(ww). Notably, the particle size distributions determined from D. magna tissues suggested minimal shifts in the size distributions of ENPs accumulated, as compared to the exposure media.
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