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ReviewEnvironmental science. Nano2025

Exploring environmental nanobiogeochemistry using field-flow fractionation and ICP-MS-based tools: background and fundamentals.

C W Cuss, E Alasonati, M F Benedetti, C M Churchill, S Fernando, R Gasco, A Goodman, C Moens, M D Montaño, V I Slaveykova and 2 more

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Review in Environmental science. Nano, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

C W CussLaboratory for Environmental and Analytical Nanogeochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Grenfell Campus) Canada ccuss@mun.ca ksufufernand@mun.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7056-9802
E AlasonatiLaboratoire National de Métrologie et D'Essais Paris France.
M F BenedettiUniversité Paris Cité - Institut de Physique du globe de Paris, CNRS F75005 Paris France tharaud@ipgp.fr.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1075-8205
C M ChurchillLaboratory for Environmental and Analytical Nanogeochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Grenfell Campus) Canada ccuss@mun.ca ksufufernand@mun.ca.
S FernandoLaboratory for Environmental and Analytical Nanogeochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Grenfell Campus) Canada ccuss@mun.ca ksufufernand@mun.ca.
R GascoDepartment F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences, University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland isabelle.worms@unige.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3182-3299
A GoodmanBiophysicochimie des systèmes biologiques et environnementaux, Université de Montréal Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3704-7454
C MoensSoil and Water Management, KU Leuven Belgium.
M D MontañoWestern Washington University Bellingham USA montanm2@wwu.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4343-2546
V I SlaveykovaDepartment F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences, University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland isabelle.worms@unige.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8361-2509
M TharaudUniversité Paris Cité - Institut de Physique du globe de Paris, CNRS F75005 Paris France tharaud@ipgp.fr.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6131-655X
I A M WormsDepartment F.-A. Forel for Environmental and Aquatic Sciences, University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland isabelle.worms@unige.ch.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7498-0078

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent application of sophisticated instrumentation and novel experimental techniques to environmental systems has driven the study of natural nanoparticles and nanoparticle systems towards new horizons. Moving beyond the detection of engineered nanoparticles in natural systems, these technologies create new knowledge about the composition, behaviour, and functions of natural nanoparticles as individual entities and particle systems. In this tutorial review, we define the emerging field of environmental nanobiogeochemistry and describe the fundamentals, optimization, advantages, and disadvantages of field-flow fractionation and ICP-MS-based techniques for advancing our understanding of natural nanoscale particles and particle systems. The companion perspective Exploring environmental nanobiogeochemistry using field-flow fractionation and ICP-MS-based tools: progress and frontiers describes the progress and frontiers in this research area using case studies drawn from a range of published and unpublished data spanning diverse environmental systems. Thus, by combining necessary background with the most recent findings and key challenges, these contributions provide key knowledge for new and established researchers entering this exciting field and lay the groundwork for future research.

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PMCPMC12679227

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