A review on Nanotoxicology: Aquatic environment and biological system

Nanotoxicology is a field of new and emerging research area in toxicology. This stream is related with the toxic effects of nanomaterials (NMs) on health and environment. They pose dangerous health effect, soci-etal threat and environmental hazards due to their nanoscale diamensio. Physical, chemical properties of NPs and environmental factors collectively influence NPs behaviour and toxicity. The mechanism of NMs influencing the toxicity has been studied. Reactive oxygen species (ROS), oxidative stress, ecotoxicity, genotoxicity represents some mechanism. Here, this review will focus on topics including to chemical and physical properties of NMs and characterization for proper toxicological evaluation, exposure, envi-ronmental fate and transport, ecotoxic and genotoxic effects. This article discusses about possible sources and routes of NMs in the aquatic environment. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Confer-ence on Advanced Functional Materials (Innovations in Chemical, Physical and Biological Sciences).