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Human Health Effects
Nanoplastics
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Controlled protein mediated aggregation of polystyrene nanoplastics does not reduce toxicity towards Daphnia magna
Environmental Science Nano
2020
23 citations
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Rebecca Frankel,
Mikael T. Ekvall,
Egle Kelpsiene,
Lars‐Anders Hansson,
Tommy Cedervall
Summary
Researchers found that protein-mediated aggregation of polystyrene nanoplastics into larger clusters did not reduce their toxicity to Daphnia magna, whereas solid particles of equivalent aggregate size were non-toxic, suggesting aggregation state alone does not determine nanoplastic hazard.
Aggregated small nanoplastics are still toxic whereas solid nanoplastics with the same size as the aggregates are not.