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Effects of Fullerene Nanocomposite in Marine and Estuarine Organisms

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The fullerene-C60 is a commercially attractive nanoparticle which increases the efficiency of drugs, cosmetics, and electronics. Like most of the contaminants when released into the environment, the final destination of fullerene-C60 might be the aquatic system, where it will be subject to interactions with the biota and other compounds. This study aimed to evaluate the possible effects of this nanoparticle on marine and estuarine biota. Thus, acute toxicity assays with Acartia tonsa and Mysidopsis juniae were conducted to evaluate the toxicity of aqueous fullerene suspension (nC60). This suspension of C60 was prepared using 200 mg of fullerene-C60 dissolved in 1 L of Milli-Q water. Due to the low solubility of fullerene-C60 in water, the nominal concentration of suspension was 0.53 μg L−1. The nominal concentrations used for the assays were 0.053 and 0.265 μg L−1, which correspond to 10 % and 50 % of the concentration of nC60, respectively. The results indicated that nC60 did not cause acute toxicity to A. tonsa and M. juniae at the tested concentrations.

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Seber, S., Pinho, G.L.L. (2016). Effects of Fullerene Nanocomposite in Marine and Estuarine Organisms. In: Shukla, P. (eds) Frontier Discoveries and Innovations in Interdisciplinary Microbiology. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2610-9_11

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