TY  - JOUR
AU  - Braun, Anika
AU  - Klumpp, Erwin
AU  - Azzam, Rafig
AU  - Neukum, Christoph
TI  - Transport and deposition of stabilized engineered silver nanoparticles in water saturated loamy sand and silty loam
JO  - The science of the total environment
VL  - 535
SN  - 0048-9697
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier Science
M1  - FZJ-2015-05775
SP  - 102 - 112
PY  - 2015
AB  - It is considered inevitable that the increasing production and application of engineered nanoparticles will lead to their release into the environment. However, the behavior of these materials under environmentally relevant conditions is still only poorly understood. In this study the transport and deposition behavior of engineered surfactant stabilized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in water saturated porous media was investigated in transport experiments with glass beads as reference porous medium and in two natural soils under various hydrodynamic and hydrochemical conditions. The transport and retention processes of AgNPs in the porous media were elucidated by inverse modeling and possible particle size changes occurring during the transport through the soil matrix were analyzed with flow field-flow fractionation (FlFFF). A high mobility of AgNPs was observed in loamy sand under low ionic strength (IS) conditions and at high flow rates. The transport was inhibited at low flow rates, at higher IS, in the presence of divalent cations and in a more complex, fine-grained silty loam. The slight decrease of the mean particle size of the AgNPs in almost all experiments indicates size selective filtration processes and enables the exclusion of homoaggregation processes.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000360291100013
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.12.023
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/255641
ER  -