There is still a lack of knowledge concerning bioaccumulation of nanoparticles. This paper is the first one to describe the accumulation of metal depending on its source, such as uncoated and unmodified ZnO nanoparticles, ZnCl2 in solution, and macropowder ZnO. The bioaccumulation was studied in a model terrestrial invertebrate, known to accumulate large proportions of metals. The bioaccumulation potential of Zn was found to be the same regardless of Zn source and depends most probably on Zn dissolution from ZnO particles and not on bioaccumulation of particulate ZnO.
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