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Effect of non-ageing and ageing ceria nanoparticles suspensions on fresh water micro-algae

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When assessing the hazards properties of nanomaterials in the environment, the main research challenges are numerous. Firstly, determining if nanomaterials are more or less toxic than the bulk forms of the same materials and the extent to which toxicity is governed or influenced by the physico-chemicals properties of the nanoparticles. Secondly, it appears necessary to study the effect of nanomaterials and nanoparticles throughout their life cycle including both initial forms and physico-chemically modified form (i.e. aggregated or agglomerated forms) resulting from an ageing process. Our work focused on the effect of commercial ceria nanoparticle (nCeO2) suspensions, towards freshwater micro-algae assessing the effect nCeO2 suspensions with different agglomeration/aggregation state obtained by using an artificial ageing process. Both ageing and non-ageing nCeO2 suspensions were fully characterized using dynamic light scattering (ZetaSizer, Malvern Instruments) or laser diffraction (MasterSizer, Malvern Instruments) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In addition, the interaction between NPs and algae were investigated using flow-cytometry and environmental scanning electron microscope technique (E-SEM).The results obtained showed that the algae growth inhibition was similar after exposure to non-ageing or ageing nCeO2 suspensions. The results obtained from flow-cytometry and E-SEM proved that the ceria NPs are able to tightly entrap the algae cells, which could in part contribute to the effect recorded. Those results also support the fact that aggregation or agglomeration has a few influences when focusing on the standardized algae ecotoxicity test. Moreover by comparison to our previous studies performed with other ceria suspensions, it was shown that the primary particle size and consequently the particle surface area is a relevant parameter in assessing the ecotoxicity of nanoparticles.
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ineris-00973664 , version 1 (04-04-2014)

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  • HAL Id : ineris-00973664 , version 1
  • INERIS : EN-2012-172

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Nicolas Manier, Anne Bado-Nilles, Amélie Resve, Patrice Delalain, Olivier Aguerre-Chariol, et al.. Effect of non-ageing and ageing ceria nanoparticles suspensions on fresh water micro-algae. 6. SETAC World Congress 2012 / 22. SETAC Europe Annual Meeting "Securing a sustainable future : integrating science, policy and people", May 2012, Berlin, Germany. ⟨ineris-00973664⟩

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