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6. Environmental Bioeffects and Safety Assessment of Silver Nanoparticles

Authors : Sujuan Yu, Lingxiangyu Li, Qunfang Zhou, Jingfu Liu, Guibin Jiang

Published in: Silver Nanoparticles in the Environment

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

The large production and expanding application of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in consumer market would inevitably bring additional sources of AgNPs in the natural environment, and the long-term and incremental exposure to both biota and human is also expected, which prompts scientists to consider more comprehensively the impacts of AgNPs on ecosystem health and safety in light of their toxicity as shown in Chap. 5. As the number of literature focused on the ecological effects of AgNPs gradually increase, it is possible to describe preliminarily the current knowledge of environmental bioeffects and safety assessment of AgNPs. In this chapter, we try to summarize and discuss the works that has been done so far to follow the environmental bioeffects and risk assessment of AgNPs.

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Title: Environmental Bioeffects and Safety Assessment of Silver Nanoparticles
Authors: Sujuan Yu
Lingxiangyu Li
Qunfang Zhou
Jingfu Liu
Guibin Jiang
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Silver Nanoparticles in the Environment
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-46069-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-662-46070-2

Copyright Year: 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46070-2_6