Dose Metric Conversion Using Silver Nanoparticles

摘要

While use of the standard mass dose metric in nanoectoxicology may be used as a matter of convenience, additional consideration needs to be given to alternative dose metrics. In this paper we entered particle diameter, particle concentration and test organism survival from several available ecotoxicology nanosilver datasets into a new web based dose metric conversion tool and determined total particle surface area appeared to better standardize the toxicity of different sized nanosilver particles relative to total mass concentration and particle number concentration options.