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Characterization of Ti-containing nanoparticles in the aquatic environment of the Tamsuei River Basin in northern Taiwan.

Hwang YH, Chung CH, Chen YT, Chen JA. Characterization of Ti-containing nanoparticles in the aquatic environment of the Tamsuei River Basin in northern Taiwan. The Science of the total environment. 2021 Nov 25; 797:149163.

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Abstract:

Titanium dioxide (TiO) is commonly contained in many commercial products and there are concerns about its release into the aquatic environment after use. This study was designed to characterize the distribution of Ti-containing nanoparticulates (NPs) in the water of the Tamsuei River Basin in northern Taiwan. Water samples were collected from the upstream, mid-stream, and downstream areas of the Tamsuei River Basin and analyzed with single-particle ICPMS to profile the Ti-containing NPs in terms of mass concentration, number concentration and particulate size. The lowest mass concentration of Ti-containing NPs, 1.04 ± 0.04 µg/L, was found in the upstream water samples, while the highest mass concentration, 31.7 ± 0.6 µg/L, was observed in downstream samples; there was an increasing trend from upstream to downstream. The highest particulate number concentration, 479 ± 163 × 10/mL, was observed for the downstream samples, but the lowest concentration, 45.4 ± 5.6 × 10/mL, was found in the mid-stream water samples taken from Site C. Moreover, the average mode values for particulate sizes were approximately 50 nm for all samples, although a relatively larger average mode value of 62 ± 5.7 nm was observed in the mid-stream samples from Site A. Increasing mass concentrations and particulate number concentrations from upstream to downstream implied that these NPs might have originally resulted from anthropogenic activities involving the use of TiO NPs-containing products. Surprisingly, however, the lowest number concentrations for Ti-containing NPs in the mid-stream samples can probably be attributed to the fact that the corresponding sampling sites were located in the water preservation zone, which exhibits a particle-settling effect. Additionally, the sizes of Ti-containing NPs in downstream samples were not significantly larger than those in the upstream and mid-stream samples, as expected, which was probably due to the steric effects resulting from the presence of large amounts of macromolecule polymers in aquatic environments.





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