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Nanoparticle interactions with co-existing contaminants: Joint toxicity, bioaccumulation and risk

Rui Deng1, Daohui Lin1,2,*, Lizhong Zhu1,2, Sanghamitra Majumdar3, Jason C. White3,

Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey4,6, Baoshan Xing5

1Department of Environmental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China;

2Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Organic Pollution Process and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China;

3 The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT 06504, USA;

4 Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA;

5 Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA;

6 University of California Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN), The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA

*Corresponding author: Tel.: +86 571 88982582; fax: +86 571 88982590.

E-mail address: (D. Lin)
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