C60, as one of carbon nanomaterials widely used in various fields, could be released into the water environment thus exerting some potential health risks to human beings. This work examined the behavior of aqueous sta...C60, as one of carbon nanomaterials widely used in various fields, could be released into the water environment thus exerting some potential health risks to human beings. This work examined the behavior of aqueous stable colloidal nano-C60 （nC60） aggregates under different environmental conditions including Polyethylene glycol octylphenol ether （TX100） micelles concentration, pH, and reaction time when exposed to TX100micelles. Results show that the nC60 aggregates became more dispersive and restored the capability of generating the singlet oxygen when exposed to TX100 micelles. With the increase of TX100 concentration, smaller average size of nC60 aggregates was observed in dynamic light scattering （DLS） analysis, the fluorescence intensity of TX100 was more quenched by nC60 aggregates, and the kinetic rate constant of generating the singlet oxygen for nC60 aggregates was improved. The mean size of nC60 aggregates in the presence of TX 100 had no obvious variations when the pH ranged from 4 to 8. The longer reaction time between nCro aggregates and TX100 led to a higher kinetic rate constant of generating the singlet oxygen. Collective data suggest that variations in physicochemical properties of nC60 aggregates are strongly dependent on the surrounding media under different environmental conditions and directly govern nC60＇S transport behavior and potential toxicity.展开更多
基金Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 21177084）, the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry （2010.40th）, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical and Engineer- ing Crossing Research Fund, Shanghai Jiao Tong University SMC-B Research Fund, and Intercollegiate cooperative project supported by Shanghai Jiaotong University（2013）.
文摘C60, as one of carbon nanomaterials widely used in various fields, could be released into the water environment thus exerting some potential health risks to human beings. This work examined the behavior of aqueous stable colloidal nano-C60 （nC60） aggregates under different environmental conditions including Polyethylene glycol octylphenol ether （TX100） micelles concentration, pH, and reaction time when exposed to TX100micelles. Results show that the nC60 aggregates became more dispersive and restored the capability of generating the singlet oxygen when exposed to TX100 micelles. With the increase of TX100 concentration, smaller average size of nC60 aggregates was observed in dynamic light scattering （DLS） analysis, the fluorescence intensity of TX100 was more quenched by nC60 aggregates, and the kinetic rate constant of generating the singlet oxygen for nC60 aggregates was improved. The mean size of nC60 aggregates in the presence of TX 100 had no obvious variations when the pH ranged from 4 to 8. The longer reaction time between nCro aggregates and TX100 led to a higher kinetic rate constant of generating the singlet oxygen. Collective data suggest that variations in physicochemical properties of nC60 aggregates are strongly dependent on the surrounding media under different environmental conditions and directly govern nC60＇S transport behavior and potential toxicity.
