Marine nano-ecotoxicology has emerged with the purpose to assess the environmental risks associated with engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) among contaminants of emerging concerns entering the marine environment. ENMs’ massive production and integration in everyday life ap-plications, associated with their peculiar physical chemical features, including high biological reac-tivity, have imposed a pressing need to shed light on risk for humans and the environment. Environmental safety assessment, known as ecosafety, has thus become mandatory with the perspective to develop a more holistic exposure scenario and understand biological effects. Here, we review the current knowledge on behavior and impact of ENMs which end up in the marine environment. A focus on titanium dioxide (n-TiO2) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), among metal-based ENMs massively used in commercial products, and polymeric NPs as polystyrene (PS), largely adopted as proxy for nanoplastics, is made. ENMs eco-interactions with chemical molecules including (bio)nat-ural ones and anthropogenic pollutants, forming eco-and bio-coronas and link with their uptake and toxicity in marine organisms are discussed. An ecologically based design strategy (eco-design) is proposed to support the development of new ENMs, including those for environmental applications (e.g., nanoremediation), by balancing their effectiveness with no associated risk for marine organisms and humans.

Eco-interactions of engineered nanomaterials in the marine environment: Towards an eco-design framework / Corsi, I.; Bellingeri, A.; Eliso, M. C.; Grassi, G.; Liberatori, G.; Murano, C.; Sturba, L.; Vannuccini, M. L.; Bergami, E.. - In: NANOMATERIALS. - ISSN 2079-4991. - 11:8(2021), pp. 1-32. [10.3390/nano11081903]

Eco-interactions of engineered nanomaterials in the marine environment: Towards an eco-design framework

Bergami E.
2021

Abstract

Marine nano-ecotoxicology has emerged with the purpose to assess the environmental risks associated with engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) among contaminants of emerging concerns entering the marine environment. ENMs’ massive production and integration in everyday life ap-plications, associated with their peculiar physical chemical features, including high biological reac-tivity, have imposed a pressing need to shed light on risk for humans and the environment. Environmental safety assessment, known as ecosafety, has thus become mandatory with the perspective to develop a more holistic exposure scenario and understand biological effects. Here, we review the current knowledge on behavior and impact of ENMs which end up in the marine environment. A focus on titanium dioxide (n-TiO2) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), among metal-based ENMs massively used in commercial products, and polymeric NPs as polystyrene (PS), largely adopted as proxy for nanoplastics, is made. ENMs eco-interactions with chemical molecules including (bio)nat-ural ones and anthropogenic pollutants, forming eco-and bio-coronas and link with their uptake and toxicity in marine organisms are discussed. An ecologically based design strategy (eco-design) is proposed to support the development of new ENMs, including those for environmental applications (e.g., nanoremediation), by balancing their effectiveness with no associated risk for marine organisms and humans.
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Eco-interactions of engineered nanomaterials in the marine environment: Towards an eco-design framework / Corsi, I.; Bellingeri, A.; Eliso, M. C.; Grassi, G.; Liberatori, G.; Murano, C.; Sturba, L.; Vannuccini, M. L.; Bergami, E.. - In: NANOMATERIALS. - ISSN 2079-4991. - 11:8(2021), pp. 1-32. [10.3390/nano11081903]
Corsi, I.; Bellingeri, A.; Eliso, M. C.; Grassi, G.; Liberatori, G.; Murano, C.; Sturba, L.; Vannuccini, M. L.; Bergami, E.
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