期刊
NANOMATERIALS
卷 11, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano11081903
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marine pollution; engineered nanomaterials; nanoecotoxicology; bio-nano interactions; behavior; titanium dioxide; silver nanoparticles; polystyrene nanoparticles; eco-safety; eco-design
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- PNRA 2014, Plastic in Polar Environments (PLANET) [140090]
- Regione Toscana 2017-2020, NanoBonD (Nanomaterials for Remediation of Environmental Matrices associated to Dewatering) POR CReO FESR Toscana [2014-2020-30/07/2014-LA 1.1.5]
Marine nano-ecotoxicology focuses on the behavior and impact of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in the marine environment, specifically looking at the uptake and toxicity effects of ENMs like titanium dioxide and silver nanoparticles on marine organisms. The development of a ecologically based design strategy is proposed to ensure the new ENMs have no harm on marine organisms and humans in environmental applications.
Marine nano-ecotoxicology has emerged with the purpose to assess the environmental risks associated with engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) among contaminants of emerging concerns entering the marine environment. ENMs' massive production and integration in everyday life applications, associated with their peculiar physical chemical features, including high biological reactivity, have imposed a pressing need to shed light on risk for humans and the environment. Environmental safety assessment, known as ecosafety, has thus become mandatory with the perspective to develop a more holistic exposure scenario and understand biological effects. Here, we review the current knowledge on behavior and impact of ENMs which end up in the marine environment. A focus on titanium dioxide (n-TiO2) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), among metal-based ENMs massively used in commercial products, and polymeric NPs as polystyrene (PS), largely adopted as proxy for nanoplastics, is made. ENMs eco-interactions with chemical molecules including (bio)natural ones and anthropogenic pollutants, forming eco- and bio-coronas and link with their uptake and toxicity in marine organisms are discussed. An ecologically based design strategy (eco-design) is proposed to support the development of new ENMs, including those for environmental applications (e.g., nanoremediation), by balancing their effectiveness with no associated risk for marine organisms and humans.
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