The recent advances in nanotechnology and the corresponding increase in the use of
nanomaterials in products in every sector of society have resulted in uncertainties regarding …

Nanotechnology has widespread application in agricultural, environmental and industrial
sectors ranging from fabrication of molecular assemblies to microbial array chips. Despite …

Environmental Context. The fate and behaviour of trace pollutants are very strongly
modified, and usually dominated, by their physical and chemical interactions with naturally …

The world's ten largest rivers transport approximately 40% of the fresh water and particulate
materials entering the ocean. The impact of large rivers is important on a …

Parts 1 and 2 of this series are tutorial feature articles exceptionally published as Critical
Reviews for editorial reasons. They intend to give to the nonspecialist an overview of the …

Little information is available on the potential ecotoxicity of manufactured nanomaterials
(MNMs) in the marine environment. To carefully address this issue, the toxicity of nanosized …

The partitioning (or sorption) of trace elements from aqueous solutions onto mineral surfaces
and natural organic matter (NOM) has played a major role in determining the trace element …

Cross‐flow ultrafiltration techniques and a high‐temperature combustion (HTC) method
were used to investigate the distributions and fluxes of dissolved (DOC) and colloidal …

Colloids, conventionally defined as macromolecules and nanoparticles with sizes ranging
between 1 and 1000 nm, are known to be abundant in aquatic systems. In fact, the mass …

Cross-flow ultrafiltration techniques have been used to extract colloidal organic carbon
(COC) from seawater and to investigate different molecular weight fractions of dissolved …