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ClearEnvironmental Impact of Nanoparticles’ Application as an Emerging Technology: A Review
This review examines the environmental impact of engineered nanoparticles across their life cycle, from production to environmental release and effects on living organisms. The study highlights that while nanoparticles offer valuable industrial applications due to their unique properties, evidence indicates potential ecotoxicity across organisms from bacteria to complex animals, underscoring the need for more detailed safety regulations.
Nanoparticles in the Environment and Nanotoxicology
This review examines the environmental fate and toxicological risks of nanomaterials, including engineered nanoparticles and microplastics/nanoplastics, as these materials are increasingly released into ecosystems. The paper surveys current understanding of nanotoxicology and highlights the potential risks that nanoparticle contamination poses to both ecological and human health.
Toxicological Effects of Nanomaterials on the Aquatic Biota
This review examines the toxicological effects of nanomaterials on aquatic organisms, covering engineered nanomaterials used in industrial applications and their entry into aquatic environments through wastewater and runoff. The review synthesizes evidence on how nanomaterial properties such as size, surface chemistry, and composition determine their bioavailability, uptake, and toxicity across diverse aquatic biota.
A review on occurrence, characteristics, toxicology and treatment of nanoplastic waste in the environment
This review summarizes the current understanding of nanoplastic pollution, including sources, occurrence in water, soil, and air, and potential toxicity to aquatic and terrestrial organisms. The study highlights major gaps in analytical methods for detecting nanoplastics and calls for more research on their environmental fate and health effects.
Research progress on the sources and toxicology of micro (nano) plastics in environment
This review covers sources, distribution, and toxicity of micro- and nanoplastics across soil, water, and air, including effects on organisms and human health. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge on environmental microplastic contamination and its consequences.
Advances in transport and toxicity of nanoparticles in plants
Researchers reviewed how nanoparticles released into the environment are absorbed, transported, and accumulated by land plants, with evidence that they can stunt plant growth, damage cell structures, and cause DNA damage through oxidative stress. Because some of these plants are edible crops, nanoparticle contamination in soil poses a potential pathway for human health exposure.
Nanoplastics in the soil environment: Analytical methods, occurrence, fate and ecological implications
This review covered analytical methods, occurrence data, environmental fate, and ecotoxicological effects of nanoplastics in soils, finding that nanoplastics can alter soil chemistry, physical structure, and biota in ways that threaten both natural and agricultural ecosystem functions. The authors identify standardization of nanoplastic detection in soil as a critical research gap.
Fate of plastic nanoparticles (PNPs) in soil and plant systems: Current status & research gaps
This review examined the fate of plastic nanoparticles in soil and plant systems, highlighting how nanoparticles can be taken up by plant roots, translocated through tissues, and potentially enter the food chain, while identifying critical research gaps in toxicity assessment.
A Review on the Impact of Nanoparticles on Heavy Metals in the Soils
This review examined how manufactured nanomaterials affect heavy metal behavior in soils, covering how nanoparticles interact with metal ions and influence their mobility, bioavailability, and toxicity, with implications for environmental remediation and risk assessment.
Plastics and Micro/Nano-Plastics (MNPs) in the Environment: Occurrence, Impact, and Toxicity
This review provides a broad overview of how plastics break down into micro- and nanoplastics in soil, water, and air, and how these tiny particles are taken up by plants, animals, and humans. As plastics age in the environment, they become more reactive and potentially more toxic. The paper discusses how these particles enter the body, where they accumulate, and the toxic effects observed in studies so far.
Nanoplastic Toxicity: Insights and Challenges from Experimental Model Systems
This review summarizes what researchers have learned about nanoplastic toxicity from studies in cell cultures, aquatic organisms, and terrestrial animals. Evidence indicates that nanoplastics can be internalized by cells through various mechanisms and their toxicity depends on factors like particle size, surface modifications, and concentration. The study identifies key knowledge gaps and recommends more systematic research to better understand the health risks these particles may pose to humans.
A Review of The Impact of Nanoparticles on Environmental Processes
This review examines how nanoparticles, including those from plastics, interact with the environment, noting they can both help clean up pollution and cause toxic harm. The impact depends on particle size, chemical properties, and how they accumulate in soil, water, and air. The findings are relevant to microplastics because plastic nanoparticles share many of the same environmental behaviors as other nanoparticles, including the ability to build up in ecosystems and potentially enter the human body.
Ecotoxicological effects of micro- and nanoplastics on terrestrial food web from plants to human beings
This review examined the ecotoxicological effects of micro- and nanoplastics across the terrestrial food web, from plants to humans. Researchers found that plants can take up these particles through roots and leaves, soil organisms are affected by altered soil properties, and the potential for transfer through the food chain raises concerns about human dietary exposure to micro- and nanoplastics.
Nanomaterial Ecotoxicology in the Terrestrial and Aquatic Environment: A Systematic Review
This systematic review of 303 studies on nanomaterial ecotoxicity found that research has heavily focused on aquatic organisms while terrestrial impacts remain understudied, creating significant knowledge gaps. Metal oxide nanoparticles like TiO2, ZnO, and Ag showed dose-dependent toxicity across multiple organism types. These findings are relevant to microplastic research because nanoplastics behave similarly to engineered nanomaterials in biological systems, raising parallel toxicity concerns.
Fate and impact of nano/microplastic in the geoenvironment — ecotoxicological perspective
This review examined the ecotoxicological effects of nano- and microplastics in terrestrial environments across multiple taxa, finding that NMPs adsorb heavy metals, endocrine disruptors, and antibiotics that amplify their combined toxicity. The authors identified soil invertebrates and plant root systems as particularly vulnerable to NMP exposure and called for standardized terrestrial ecotoxicity testing frameworks.
Nanoparticles: Weighing the Pros and Cons from an Eco-genotoxicological Perspective
This review assessed the eco-genotoxicological risks of nanoparticles including nanoplastics and metal oxide nanoparticles, examining their DNA-damaging potential across organisms from bacteria to mammals and finding that surface chemistry and dissolution behavior are the primary determinants of genotoxicity, with implications for environmental risk assessment frameworks.
Review and Prospects on the Ecotoxicity of Mixtures of Nanoparticles and Hybrid Nanomaterials
This review examines the toxic effects of nanoparticle mixtures on a wide range of organisms, from algae and bacteria to fish and plants. Researchers found that combined exposure to multiple nanoparticles often produces different effects than exposure to individual particles, making toxicity predictions challenging. The study highlights the need for better methods to assess real-world risks from simultaneous exposure to multiple engineered nanomaterials in the environment.
Environmental Nanopollutants
This overview examines environmental nanopollutants — including engineered nanoparticles and degradation-derived nanoplastics — synthesising recent research on their sources, environmental fate, analytical detection methods, and health and ecological risks as emerging contaminants.
A Diagrammatic Mini-Review on Soil-Human Health-Nexus: with Focus on Soil Nano-Pollution
This mini-review examined the connections between soil nanopollution and human health, tracing pathways by which nanomaterials and nanoparticles move through soil, water, plants, air, and the food chain to reach humans. The authors identified nanopollution from intensive nanomaterial use and processing as an emerging global environmental challenge with significant health implications.
Toxicological impact of micro- and nano-plastics on organisms of soil and water, plants, and humans: a comprehensive review.
This review examined the toxicological impacts of micro- and nano-plastics (MNPLs) on soil and aquatic organisms, plants, and humans. It synthesized evidence of cellular damage, oxidative stress, endocrine disruption, and reproductive toxicity across multiple biological levels.
Natural Nanoparticles: A Particular Matter Inspired by Nature
This review surveys natural nanoparticles — including those derived from minerals, plants, and microorganisms — highlighting their diverse properties and applications in medicine, agriculture, and environmental remediation. Understanding natural nanoparticle behavior in the environment provides a useful contrast for evaluating how synthetic nanoplastics interact with biological systems.
Microplastics and Nanoplastics and Related Chemicals
This review provides a broad overview of microplastics and nanoplastics as environmental contaminants, covering their sources, distribution across water, soil, and air, and their potential toxic effects on organisms. Researchers summarized evidence showing that these particles can accumulate in food chains and interact with other chemical pollutants, potentially amplifying health risks. The study emphasizes the need for standardized detection methods and comprehensive risk assessments across different environmental compartments.
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in the Environment: Sources, Toxicity, and Ecological Implications
This review summarized the sources, environmental distribution, toxicological effects, and ecological impacts of microplastics and nanoplastics, drawing on two decades of research across marine, freshwater, soil, and atmospheric environments. The paper highlighted the global scale of MNP contamination and the urgent need for policy action to reduce plastic pollution.
Quantification and Ecotoxicological Evolution of Microplastics in Soil Ecosystem
This review discusses methods for quantifying microplastics in soil and aquatic sediments and assesses their ecotoxicological effects on invertebrates, plants, and microbes, finding that MPs impair soil function and food web dynamics across concentration ranges commonly found in contaminated environments.