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

工程纳米颗粒(ENPs)是一组迅速扩大和多样化的技术，目前和潜在的应用于一系列工业和家用产品，包括服装、农业、电子、医疗保健和废水处理。随着ENP技术的应用越来越多，ENPs释放到环境中的数量将不可避免地增加。为了有效地管理这种释放，并将对野生动物的风险降至最低，环境监管机构要求提供关于环境命运、行为和ENPs毒性的信息。ENPs是由许多核心材料和表面化学物质合成的，这笔赠款将用于协助监管机构，提供关于ENPs的特定属性的知识，这些属性对其毒性有贡献，可用于风险评估过程的初始阶段。这些预测

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