Assessing the ecological risk of emerging nanomaterials- developing a generalized understanding based upon their physicochemical properties

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Engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) are a rapidly expanding and diversifying group of technologies with current and potential applications in a range of industrial and domestic products including clothing, agriculture, electronics, healthcare and wastewater treatment. With increased application of ENP-enabled technologies, release of ENPs into the environment will inevitably increase. To manage this release effectively and to minimize risk to wildlife, environmental regulators require information of the environmental fate, behaviour and toxicity of ENPs. ENPs are synthesized with numerous core materials and surface chemistries, this grant will be use to assist regulators by providing knowledge of the specific properties of ENPs that contribute to their toxicity that could be applied used in the initial stages of the risk assessment process. These predictions