Special Issue "Assessment of Nanoparticles in Complex Media"

Dear Colleagues,

Inorganic nanoparticles are increasingly produced and already incorporated in various products that are used on a daily basis: food, cosmetics and care products, drugs, textiles, paints, and electronics. The large use of nanoparticles raises concerns about human and environmental safety. In fact, their outstanding physicochemical properties could be at the origin of their environmental and human toxicity. The information available on their toxicity and accumulation in the environment and living organisms still raises controversy, and results are often difficult to compare because of unreliable data. In order to minimize their negative effects and continue using nanoparticles, more research is needed—especially in assessing their fate in various media as well as their biological effects. The analysis of nanoparticles in environmental and biological media is challenging, as these matrices are very complex. Despite the wide range of techniques and methods for the detection, quantification, and characterization of nanoparticles in their raw state, only a few are adapted for the analysis of complex media. Mass-spectrometry-based techniques look promising, but spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques have recently undergone remarkable development.

This Special Issue will focus on presenting the state-of-the art analytical techniques for nanoparticles analysis in complex media.

Dr. Ciprian Mihai Cirtiu
Guest Editor

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• nanoparticles analysis
• characterization
• biological media
• environmental media
• emerging techniques
• mass spectrometry
• chromatography
• microscopy