Modeling Nanomaterial Environmental Fate in Aquatic Systems
Modeling Nanomaterial Environmental Fate in Aquatic Systems
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DOI：
10.1021/es505076w
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发表时间：
2015-03-03
影响因子：
11.4
通讯作者：
Baalousha, Mohammed
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作者：
Dale, Amy L.;Casman, Elizabeth A.;Baalousha, Mohammed
数学模型提高了我们对工程纳米材料（纳米材料，尺寸约为1-100纳米的化学物质或材料）的环境行为，归宿和运输的基本理解，并促进了风险评估和管理活动。虽然今天的大型环境命运模型的纳米材料是一个相当大的改进，早期的努力，仍然存在差距的实验研究进行到目前为止的环境命运的纳米材料和其纳入模型。本文介绍了在模拟的命运和行为的纳米材料在水环境中的科学现状。我们解决了现有的命运模型的优点和缺点，确定研究人员在开发和验证这些模型所面临的挑战，并提供了一个视角，如何通过建模者和实验者的共同努力来解决这些挑战。
Mathematical models improve our fundamental understanding of the environmental behavior, fate, and transport of engineered nanomaterials (NMs, chemical substances or materials roughly 1–100 nm in size) and facilitate risk assessment and management activities. Although today’s large-scale environmental fate models for NMs are a considerable improvement over early efforts, a gap still remains between the experimental research performed to date on the environmental fate of NMs and its incorporation into models. This article provides an introduction to the current state of the science in modeling the fate and behavior of NMs in aquatic environments. We address the strengths and weaknesses of existing fate models, identify the challenges facing researchers in developing and validating these models, and offer a perspective on how these challenges can be addressed through the combined efforts of modelers and experimentalists.