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2008

Sammendrag

A major challenge in studies on the environmental fate of nanoparticles is to detect their presence and distinguish them from natural nanoparticles and the large variety of amorphous materials present in environmental media. Neutron activation of mineral particles enables the production of radio-labelled NPs without surface modification, and enabling both localisation and quantification within a matrix or organism. The method is extremely sensitive, allowing detection at parts per billion or lower. Thus, any such labelled NP can be detected in individual fractions or compartments in soil or sediments (associated to clay, colloids, humic material, etc) or localized within organisms and their specific tissues following dissection (fish gills, digestive tract, liver, brain, etc) or by autoradiography. An added advantage of gamma-emitting radionuclides is that they do not need separation from the matrix for counting, thus uptake and extraction can be followed on live animals. Thus time-course experiments in vivo may be conducted to study metabolism and exposure, two aspects that are currently lacking in the body of ecotoxicological knowledge about ENPs. This paper will report some of the conditions, advantages and experimental opportunities of using neutron activation as a tool to study ENPs in environmental samples, with demonstration of the application of the technique in studies on Ag and Co nanoparticle uptake and metabolism in the earthworm Eisenia fetida.

Sammendrag

Based on data from published nitrogen balances at the farm level, it is shown that fams combining grazing with own silage/hay production for the winter period are highly nitrogen efficient

Sammendrag

A major challenge in studies on the environmental fate of nanoparticles is to detect their presence and distinguish them from natural nanoparticles and the large variety of amorphous materials present in environmental media. Neutron activation of mineral particles enables the production of radio-labelled NPs without surface modification, and enabling both localisation and quantification within a matrix or organism. The method is extremely sensitive, allowing detection at parts per billion or lower. Thus, any such labelled NP can be detected in individual fractions or compartments in soil or sediments (associated to clay, colloids, humic material, etc) or localized within organisms and their specific tissues following dissection (fish gills, digestive tract, liver, brain, etc) or by autoradiography. An added advantage of gamma-emitting radionuclides is that they do not need separation from the matrix for counting, thus uptake and extraction can be followed on live animals. Thus time-course experiments in vivo may be conducted to study metabolism and exposure, two aspects that are currently lacking in the body of ecotoxicological knowledge about ENPs. This paper will report some of the conditions, advantages and experimental opportunities of using neutron activation as a tool to study ENPs in environmental samples, with demonstration of the application of the technique in studies on Ag and Co nanoparticle uptake and metabolism in the earthworm Eisenia fetida.