Effects of engineered cerium oxide nanoparticles on bacterial growth and viability.

ABSTRACT: Interest in engineered nanostructures has risen in recent years due to their use in energy conservation strategies and biomedicine. To ensure prudent development and use of nanomaterials, the fate and effects of such engineered structures on the environment should be understood. Interactions of nanomaterials with environmental microorganisms are inevitable, but the general consequences of such interactions remain unclear, due to a lack of standard methods for assessing such interactions. Therefore, we have initiated a multianalytical approach to understand the interactions of synthesized nanoparticles with bacterial systems. These efforts are focused initially on cerium oxide nanoparticles and model bacteria in order to evaluate characterization procedures and the possible fate of such mat

SUBMITTER: Pelletier DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3008265 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature