In the first part of the ‘Highlights of 2024’, we give our readers a recap of the scientific publications we covered this year.
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Tag Archives: nanoparticles
Does the aging of nanoparticles modulate the ecotoxicity of metals?
In this blog post, Rajdeep Roy and his colleagues address the impacts of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (nTiO2)-aging on the ecotoxicity of metals. This is done by employing acute waterborne and multigenerational dietary exposures.
Continue readingAMEO experience – nEcoTox, Germany – Veronica Rodriguez and Lorenz Witt (2023)
In this blogpost, Veronica Rodriguez and Lorenz Witt share their internship experience at nEcoTox, Germany. Students of the Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology) Program complete an 8-week internship each year, the so-called “AMEO”. The AMEO is performed either at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute where students learn to apply the competences achieved during their study. Students also use this opportunity to travel and explore Germany.
Continue readingFinding needles in haystacks – Detection of TiO2 nanoparticles in soil
In a recent publication from the Environmental and Soil Chemistry group, we present a method enabling us to detect anthropogenic TiO2 nanoparticles in soil despite the presence of a high natural background. The method relies of colloidal extraction and trace elements ratio using ICP-MS.
Continue readingCan clay minerals make copper oxide nanoparticles toxic?
In this blogpost by Jonas Fischer, springtails were exposed to copper oxide nanoparticles at realistic field concentrations in four soils of varying properties. Toxic effects occurred only in loamy soils and mostly at the lowest test concentrations. Reduced nanoparticle agglomeration and clay-nanoparticle interactions were considered being responsible for this observation.
Continue readingSETAC SciCon: Spotlight on our presentations (Part 3)
Our research at University of Koblenz-Landau is going virtual at SETAC SciCon! In this three-part blog series, we highlight several poster and platform presentations of our researchers: Today, find out what Ralf. B. Schäfer, Alexander Feckler, and Eric Bollinger have planned for the conference.
Continue readingSETAC SciCon: Spotlight on our presentations (Part 2)
Our research at University of Koblenz-Landau is going virtual at SETAC SciCon! In this three-part blog series, we highlight several poster and platform presentations of our researchers: Today, find out what Elena Adams and Roy Rajdeep have planned for the conference.
Continue readingPhD position in Nano-Ecotoxicology at Uni Gothenburg
University of Gothenburg in Sweden is hiring a PhD student in environmental science to test the toxicity of pristine and weathered nanoparticles on fish derived cell lines and fish embryos.
Continue readingIndirect effects of silver nanoparticles in aquatic invertebrates
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about a recently published open access paper entitled “Microbially-mediated indirect effects of silver nanoparticles on aquatic invertebrates”.
Nanoparticles in the environment – Lessons learned today?
In this post, Simon Lüderwald talks about their recently accepted literature review “Nanoparticles in the environment – where do we come from, where do we go to?”.