Dynamic Probabilistic Modeling of Environmental Emissions of Engineered Nanomaterials
ETH Zurich · Institute for Biomedical Engineering · +3 more institutions
Abstract
The need for an environmental risk assessment for engineered nanomaterials (ENM) necessitates the knowledge about their environmental concentrations. Despite significant advances in analytical methods, it is still not possible to measure the concentrations of ENM in natural systems. Material flow and environmental fate models have been used to provide predicted environmental concentrations. However, almost all current models are static and consider neither the rapid development of ENM production nor the fact that many ENM are entering an in-use stock and are released with a lag phase. Here we use dynamic probabilistic material flow modeling to predict the flows of four ENM (nano-TiO2, nano-ZnO, nano-Ag and…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 25.77
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 37
Authors
4- TYTian Yin SunCorresponding
ETH Zurich, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering (Switzerland), Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
- NANikolaus A. Bornhöft
University of Zurich, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
- KHKonrad Hungerbühler
ETH Zurich, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering (Switzerland)
- BNBernd Nowack
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Topics & keywords
- Environmental science
- Material flow analysis
- Incineration
- Environmental chemistry
- Biochemical engineering
- Waste management
- Chemistry
- Engineering
- Life in Land