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A versatile test system to determine nanomaterial heteroagglomeration attachment efficiency

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE-NANO
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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d3en00161j

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Engineered and incidental nanomaterials are emerging contaminants of environmental concern. This study introduces a new versatile test system to determine heteroagglomeration attachment efficiency (αhet) under environmentally relevant conditions. The importance of this research lies in providing the comparability of environmental fate studies and environmental risk assessment of nanomaterials.
Engineered and incidental nanomaterials are emerging contaminants of environmental concern. In aquatic systems, their transport, fate, and bioavailability strongly depend on heteroagglomeration with natural suspended particulate matter (SPM). Since particulate contaminants are governed by different mechanisms than dissolved contaminants, harmonized, particle-specific test systems and protocols are needed for environmental risk assessment and for the comparability of environmental fate studies. The heteroagglomeration attachment efficiency (& alpha;(het)) can parametrize heteroagglomeration in fate models which inform exposure assessment. It describes the attachment probability upon nanomaterial-SPM collision and reflects the physicochemical affinity between their surfaces. This work introduces a new versatile test system to determine & alpha;(het) under environmentally relevant conditions. The test matrix combines model SPM analogs and an adjustable model hydrochemistry, both designed to represent the process-relevant characteristics of natural freshwater systems, while being standardizable and reproducible. We developed a stirred-batch method that addresses shortcomings of existing strategies for & alpha;(het) determination and conducted heteroagglomeration experiments with CeO2 (<25 nm) as a model nanomaterial. Single-particle ICP-MS allowed working at environmentally relevant concentrations and determination of & alpha;(het) values by following the decrease of non-reacted nanomaterial over time. The & alpha;(het) values received for the model freshwater test matrix were evaluated against a natural river-water sample. Almost identical & alpha;(het) values show that the model test system adequately reflects the natural system, and the experimental setup proved to be robust and in line with the theoretical concept for & alpha;(het) determination. Combinations of natural SPM in model water and model SPM in natural water allowed further insight into their respective impacts. The & alpha;(het) values determined for nano-CeO2 in the natural river water sample (0.0044-0.0051) translate to a travel distance of 143-373 km downstream until 50% is heteroagglomerated, assuming an average flow velocity of 5 km h(-1), an SPM concentration of 20-45 mg L-1, and experimental mixing conditions (i.e., G & SIM; 97 s(-1)). These half-lives illustrate the importance of heteroagglomeration kinetics.

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