Environmental properties and aquatic hazard assessment of anionic surfactants: Physico-chemical, environmental fate and ecotoxicity properties

Könnecker, Gustav; Regelmann, Jürgen; Belanger, Scott E.; Gamon, Konrad; Sedlak, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.04.015

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“…CMC can be regarded as the maximum solubility of surfactants (Könnecker et al 2011). Nonionic surfactants have lower CMC levels than anionic and cationic surfactants (Ying 2006), and dimeric surfactants can exhibit superior solution properties to the traditional ones, such as lower CMC (Menger and Littau 1993;Zhu et al 2012).…”

Section: Surfactants General Informationmentioning

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A perspective on the potential risks of emerging contaminants to human and environmental health

Pereira

Souza

Bernardes

et al. 2015

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Technological, agricultural, and medical advances have improved the lifestyle of humankind. However, these advances have caused new problems that affect the environment and future generations. Emerging contaminants display properties such as low degradation potential and environmental persistence. In addition, most contaminants are lipophilic, which culminates in high bioaccumulation. The disposal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products into the environment underlies microbial and bacterial resistance. Plasticizers change several characteristics of industrialized materials, such as flexibility, but they are potentially carcinogenic and disrupt the endocrine system. Pesticides prevent the propagation of numerous kinds of pests; nevertheless, they exert neurotoxic and mutagenic effects, and they impact the environment negatively. Addition of flame retardants to a number of materials prevents flame propagation; however, after their release into the environment, these chemicals may bioaccumulate in organisms and disrupt the endocrine system, too. Surfactants can change the surface and interfacial properties of liquids, but their presence in the environment can interfere with countless enzymes and can even impair the endocrine system of various organisms and induce the feminization of species. Hence, gaining knowledge about emerging contaminants is increasingly important to minimize future damage and enable proper monitoring of each class of compounds in the environment which will help to improve legislation on this matter.

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Section: Surfactants General Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A perspective on the potential risks of emerging contaminants to human and environmental health

Pereira

Souza

Bernardes

et al. 2015

Environ Sci Pollut Res

205

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“…Surfactants are surface active agents and can interfere with the membranes of the gills of fish and cause toxicity (Kö nnecker et al, 2011).…”

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Effects of Herbicides on Fish

Solomon¹,

Dalhoff²,

Volz³

et al. 2013

Fish Physiology

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“…Toxicity studies (in fish, aquatic plants/invertebrates) on anionic surfactants have shown that toxicity is dependent on a number of factors such as alkyl chain length, solubility and stability in water. [94] As the length of alkyl chain increases, toxicity increases until certain limits. Further increase in chain length can decrease the hydrophilic nature of these materials, reducing bioavaibility of compound which results in a general decrease in the toxicity.…”

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Safer and Greener Catalysts – Design of High Performance, Biodegradable and Low Toxicity Ionic Liquids

Gore¹,

Gathergood²

2013

Ionic Liquids - New Aspects for the Future

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Environmental properties and aquatic hazard assessment of anionic surfactants: Physico-chemical, environmental fate and ecotoxicity properties

Cited by 104 publications

References 53 publications

A perspective on the potential risks of emerging contaminants to human and environmental health

A perspective on the potential risks of emerging contaminants to human and environmental health

Effects of Herbicides on Fish

Safer and Greener Catalysts – Design of High Performance, Biodegradable and Low Toxicity Ionic Liquids

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