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Variability, Behaviour and Impact of Nanoparticles in the Environment

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Plant Responses to Nanomaterials

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Nanotechnology has been a current area of interest for many researchers due to its immense potential and economic impact. It involves the production and application of nanomaterials (NMs) in the field of food, industries, technology and health. These NMs include nanoparticles (NPs), which have gained a lot of attention in the last few decades due to their unique properties and behaviour. But when these NPs enter the environment, they produce many harmful effects on living organisms. The sources, properties, behaviour and the negative impact of these NPs are reviewed in this chapter to control the negative effects of these NPs on the human health.

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  1. Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India

    Jaspreet Kour, Kanika Khanna, Pooja Sharma, Priya Arora, Shalini Dhiman & Renu Bhardwaj

  2. Department of Microbiology, DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

    Pooja Sharma & Ashutosh Sharma

  3. Department of Biotechnology, DAV College, Amritsar, Punjab, India

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Kour, J. et al. (2021). Variability, Behaviour and Impact of Nanoparticles in the Environment. In: Singh, V.P., Singh, S., Tripathi, D.K., Prasad, S.M., Chauhan, D.K. (eds) Plant Responses to Nanomaterials. Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36740-4_13

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