Long-Term Evaluation of Nanoparticle Contamination with the Help of Tree Ring Chemistry
摘要
The increasing prevalence of nanoparticles in the environment, resulting from both natural and anthropogenic activities, has raised important questions about their long-term ecological impacts. While conventional pollution monitoring techniques often focus on short-term or localized contamination, tree-ring chemistry offers a powerful means to investigate historical nanoparticle deposition across time and space. This chapter explores how trees can serve as long-term environmental recorders, capturing nanoparticle accumulation in annual growth layers, Tree-Rings. Emphasis is placed on the potential of tree ring chemistry, also known as dendrochemical analysis, to trace the movement, retention, and stability of metal-based nanoparticles introduced through atmospheric deposition and soil uptake. This chapter outlines the methodological advances and challenges of using tree rings as a natural archive for nanoparticle contamination. This interdisciplinary approach is significantly beneficial in environmental monitoring, regulation, and the development of bioindicators for the future in a nanoscale pollution era.