Pre-Experimental Wet Heat Sterilization Alters the Ecotoxicity of Pristine Graphene Oxide Toward <i>Daphnia magna</i>.

ABSTRACT: As the exposure of the aquatic ecosystem to graphene oxide (GO) increases with its growing production and use, understanding the structure-property-toxicity relationships becomes increasingly critical in the development of effective safe design guidelines. An appropriate testing methodology is crucial in ecotoxicity assessments to accurately characterize the environmentally relevant toxicity of nanoparticles, particularly for GO, where the physicochemical properties fundamentally determine their interactions and toxicity toward aquatic organisms. Many ecotoxicological methods require the heat sterilization of samples as a preliminary treatment prior to analysis. To investigate changes in toxicity profiles induced by wet heat sterilization pretreatments (autoclaving and Tyndall treatment) o

SUBMITTER: Fekete-Kertesz I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12693538 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature