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Fate of Manufactured Nanoparticles in Aqueous Environment

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Aging; Alteration; Dispersion; Environmental impact; Life cycle; Titanium dioxide; Transfer

Definition

Manufactured nanoparticle. Manufactured nanoparticles are particles that have at least one dimension between 1 and 100 nm and are specifically engineered to have unique properties that do not exist in bulk materials with an identical composition.

Nanomaterial. A nanomaterial is a material that contains structured components with at least one dimension below 100 nm. These “nano-components” can be a solid (nanoparticle), liquid (nano-droplet), or gas (nanoporosity) phase, distributed in the material. A nanomaterial has no maximum size limit.

Nanoproduct. A nanoproduct is a commercial product that contains nanomaterial.

Colloid. A colloid is a material distributed in a dispersing medium, which is more submitted to Brownian random motion than to gravity attraction. Colloids typically have at least one dimension below 1 μm. They look homogeneous when observed by the naked eye.

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  1. Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, CEREGE UM34, 13545, Aix en Provence, France

    Jérôme Labille, Natalia Pelinovskaya, Céline Botta, Jean-Yves Bottero & Armand Masion

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Labille, J., Pelinovskaya, N., Botta, C., Bottero, JY., Masion, A. (2014). Fate of Manufactured Nanoparticles in Aqueous Environment. In: Bhushan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6178-0_333-2

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