%0 Journal Article %T Size-dependent ecotoxicity of barium titanate particles: the case of Chlorella vulgaris green algae %+ Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF) %+ Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) %+ Interfaces, Traitements, Organisation et Dynamique des Systèmes (ITODYS (UMR_7086)) %+ Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) %+ Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP (UMR_7154)) %A Polonini, Hudson, C %A Brandão, Humberto, M %A Raposo, Nádia %A Brandão, Marcos Antônio F. %A Mouton, Ludovic %A Couté, Alain %A Yéprémian, Claude %A Sivry, Yann %A Brayner, Roberta %Z CAPES04/CII-2008Programa Ciencia sem Fronteiras/CNPq 245781/2012-9 %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0963-9292 %J Ecotoxicology %I Springer Verlag %V 24 %N 4 %P 938-948 %8 2015 %D 2015 %R 10.1007/s10646-015-1436-6 %K Nanotechnology %K Barium titanate %K Seine river water %K Ecotoxicology %K Characterization %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Toxicology/EcotoxicologyJournal articles %X Studies have been demonstrating that smaller particles can lead to unexpected and diverse ecotoxico-logical effects when compared to those caused by the bulk material. In this study, the chemical composition, size and shape, state of dispersion, and surface's charge, area and physicochemistry of micro (BT MP) and nano barium titanate (BT NP) were determined. Green algae Chlorella vulgaris grown in Bold's Basal (BB) medium or Seine River water (SRW) was used as biological indicator to assess their aquatic toxicology. Responses such as growth inhibition, cell viability, superoxide dis-mutase (SOD) activity, adenosine-5-triphosphate (ATP) content and photosynthetic activity were evaluated. Te-tragonal BT (*170 nm, 3.24 m 2 g-1 surface area) and cubic BT (*60 nm, 16.60 m 2 g-1) particles were negative , poorly dispersed, and readily aggregated. BT has a statistically significant effect on C. vulgaris growth since the lower concentration tested (1 ppm), what seems to be mediated by induced oxidative stress caused by the particles (increased SOD activity and decreased photo-synthetic efficiency and intracellular ATP content). The toxic effects were more pronounced when the algae was grown in SRW. Size does not seem to be an issue influencing the toxicity in BT particles toxicity since mi-cro-and nano-particles produced significant effects on algae growth. %G English %L insu-02891038 %U https://insu.hal.science/insu-02891038 %~ INSU %~ MNHN %~ AFRIQ %~ CNRS %~ IPGP %~ SPHERE %~ GIP-BE %~ INC-CNRS %~ UNIV-PARIS %~ UP-SCIENCES %~ ITODYS %~ ALLIANCE-SU