Preface |
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1 Modeling of Nanomaterials for Safety Assessment: From Regulatory Requirements to Supporting Scientific Theories |
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1.2 Information Requirements for Risk Assessment: Legal Provisions and Guidance |
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1.2.1 Chemical Substances under REACH |
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1.2.4 Plant Protection Products |
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1.4 Properties That Drive NM Behavior (Fate and Toxicity) |
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1.4.1 Theories Underlying Environmental and Biological Fate |
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1.5 Understanding NMs' Fate and Toxicity |
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1.5.1 Theories Underlying Environmental and Biological Fate |
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1.5.1.1 Agglomeration and aggregation kinetics in fluid media |
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1.5.1.3 Smoluchowski-Friedlander theory |
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1.5.1.4 Fractal approaches |
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1.5.2.1 Preabsorption processes |
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1.5.2.4 Metabolism/Dissolution/Transformation/Bio-nano interaction |
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1.5.2.6 Elimination (sum of solubilization and excretion) |
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1.6 Standard Test Guideline Methods for Toxicity Testing |
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1.7 Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing |
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1.7.1 Adverse Outcome Pathways |
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1.7.2.1 Supervised and unsupervised methods |
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1.7.2.3 Validation of QSARs for regulatory purposes |
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1.7.2.5 Applicability of QSAR/QSPR approaches to NMs |
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1.7.2.6 Physiologically based kinetic modeling |
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1.7.4 Grouping and Read-Across |
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1.7.6 Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment |
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2 Current Developments and Recommendations in Computational Nanotoxicology in View of Regulatory Applications |
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2.2 Computational Nanotoxicology Research Project Landscape |
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2.2.1 European Nanosafety Research Activities |
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2.2.2 Related International Activities |
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2.3 Challenges and Needs for the Development and Use of Computational Methods |
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2.4 Progress against the Challenges and Needs |
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2.4.1 Results from EU FP7-Funded Research Projects |
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2.4.2 Horizon 2020 Research Projects |
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2.5 Conclusions from the Research Landscape Review |
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2.5.1 Conclusions on the Needs Addressed |
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2.5.2 Recommendations for Nanosafety Research |
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2.6 Overall Conclusions on the Availability and Applicability of Computational Approaches for Nanosafety Assessment |
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2.6.1 Inherent Scientific Uncertainties |
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2.6.2 Data Quality and Variability |
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2.6.3 Model Landscape and Regulatory Relevance |
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2.6.4 Model Accessibility and Visibility |
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2.6.5 Practicality of Performing Read-Across for Nanomaterials |
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2.6.6 Need for Infrastructure |
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3 Physicochemical Properties of Nanomaterials from in silico Simulations: An Introduction to Density Functional Theory and Beyond |
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158 | (3) |
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3.2 Classic Density Functional Theory: Jacob's Ladder |
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3.2.1 Local Density Approximation |
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3.2.4 The Limits of Classic DFT |
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3.3.3 Density Functional Tight Binding |
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3.3.6 Implicit Solvation Models |
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4 Bionano Interactions: A Key to Mechanistic Understanding of Nanoparticle Toxicity |
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4.2 Advanced Descriptors of the Bionano Interface |
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4.2.2 Nanoparticle Descriptors and QSARs |
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4.2.3 Biomolecule Descriptors |
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4.2.4 Interaction Descriptors |
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4.3 Multiscale Modeling of the Bionano Interface |
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4.3.1 General Methodology |
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4.3.2 Coarse-Grained Protein Model |
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4.3.3 Coarse-Grained Nanoparticles |
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4.3.4 Generation of Surface Pair Potentials |
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4.3.5 Generation of the Core Potential |
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4.3.6 Calculation of the Adsorption Energy |
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4.3.7 From United-Atom to United-Amino Acid Description |
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4.4 Application of the Method |
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4.4.1 Protein Descriptors |
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4.4.2 Bionano Interface Descriptors |
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4.4.3 United-Amino Acid Model |
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5 From Modeling Nanoparticle-Membrane Interactions toward Nanotoxicology |
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5.1 Particles at Membranes |
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5.1.1 Penetration vs. Wrapping |
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5.1.2 Chemically Specific vs. Generic Models |
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5.1.3 Nanoparticle-Wrapping Endpoints |
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5.3.1 Spherical Nanoparticles |
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5.3.2 Nonspherical Nanoparticles |
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5.3.4 Dosage Effects: Cooperative Wrapping |
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5.3.5 Multicomponent Biological Membranes |
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5.3.6 Actual and Spontaneous Membrane Curvature |
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5.4 Experimental Validation |
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5.5 Toward Nanotoxicology |
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6 Descriptors in Nano-QSAR/QSPR Modeling |
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6.1 Nano-QSAR/QSPR Modeling: Benefits and Challenges |
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6.2.2 Chemical Composition Aspect |
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6.3 The First Nano-QSAR Model and Its Recalculations |
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6.3.1 Quantum-Mechanical Descriptors |
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6.3.2 SMILES-Based Optimal Descriptors |
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6.3.3 Improved SMILES-Based Optimal Descriptors |
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6.3.4 Periodic Table Descriptors |
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6.3.6 Liquid Drop Model Descriptors |
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6.3.7 Metal-Ligand Binding Characteristic |
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6.3.8 Full-Particle Descriptors |
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6.4 Other Nanodescriptors |
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6.4.1 Perturbation Approach |
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6.4.3 Reusing Toxicity Measurements |
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6.4.4 Mixture Descriptors |
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6.5 Summary and Future Perspectives |
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7 Nano-QSAR for Environmental Hazard Assessment: Turning Challenges into Opportunities |
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7.1.4 Environmental Risk Assessment and Safe-by-Design Development of ENMs |
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7.1.5 Handling Nanosafety with the Aid of Computational Toxicology |
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7.2 Inventory of Existing Toxicity Data of Metal-Based ENMs |
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7.2.1 Need for Reliable Experimental Data |
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7.2.2 Overview of Experimental Data |
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7.2.3 Suitability of Experimental Data for QSAR Modeling |
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7.3 Recent Advances toward the Development of QSARs for Metallic ENMs |
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7.3.1 Representation of the Intrinsic Properties of ENMs |
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7.3.2 Overview of Models and Modeling Approaches |
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7.3.2.1 General considerations |
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7.3.2.2 Sources of data actually used for modeling |
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7.3.2.3 Existing nano-QSARs |
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7.3.2.4 Interpretation of mechanisms of ENM biological activities using the models developed |
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7.4 Conclusions and Outlook |
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8 Read-Across to Fill Toxicological Data Gaps: Good Practice to Ensure Success with Nanoparticles |
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8.2 Why and When Read-Across Is Used to Predict Toxicity |
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8.2.3 Compliance with Regulatory Pressures |
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8.2.4 Expectation of Common Properties within a Group |
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8.2.5 The Necessity for Alternatives due to the Difficulty of Testing |
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8.2.6 Lack of Data for New Nanoparticles and New Toxicological Problems |
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8.2.7 Opportunities to Utilize New Methods and Techniques |
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8.3 Good Practice in Read-Across: Ensuring Success |
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8.3.1 Proper Definition of Structure |
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8.3.2 Understanding How Structure Affects Toxicology and Mechanism of Action: Appropriate Grouping |
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8.3.3 High-Quality Experimental Data to Anchor the Read-Across |
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8.3.4 Use Appropriate Computational Tools for Read-Across |
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8.3.5 Justification of Nanoparticle Similarity and Read-Across Hypothesis |
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8.3.6 Inclusion of Toxicokinetics for Members of a Category |
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8.3.7 Identifying and Defining Uncertainties |
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8.3.8 Assessing and Increasing Confidence |
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8.3.9 Description and Documentation of the Read-Across Prediction |
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9 Computational Methods of Interspecies Nanotoxicity Extrapolation: A Step toward the Future |
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9.3 Role of Computational Methods in Nanotoxicity Predictions |
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9.4 Interspecies Model: Extrapolation through Toxicity-Toxicity Correlation |
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9.5 Fundamental of i-QSTR Correlation |
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9.6 Necessity of Interspecies Extrapolation |
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9.7 Computational Interspecies Nanotoxicity Models |
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9.8 Species and Endpoints for an Interspecies Model |
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10 On Error Measures for Validation and Uncertainty Estimation of Predictive QSAR Models |
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10.2 Concept and Significance of Validation of QSAR Models |
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10.3 Validation Strategies |
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10.3.1 Internal Validation or Cross-Validation |
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10.3.2 External Validation |
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10.3.3 True External Validation |
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10.3.4 Double Cross-Validation |
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10.3.5 Data Randomization or Y-Scrambling |
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10.3.6 Bias and Variance in Prediction Errors |
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10.4.1 Metrics for Classification-Based QSAR Models |
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10.4.2 Metrics for Regression-Based QSAR Models |
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10.5 Model Uncertainty Aspects |
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10.5.1 Derivation of Uncertainty in QSAR Predictions: Mathematical Formalization |
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10.6 Prediction Confidence and Conformal Predictions |
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10.6.1 Conformal Prediction Errors in Regression |
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10.6.2 Conformal Prediction Errors in Classification |
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10.7 Randomization: Assessment of Chance Correlation |
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10.7.1 Randomization Metrics cRp2 |
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10.7.2 Q2yrand and R2yrand |
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10.8 Applicability Domain and Reliability of Predictions |
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10.9 Open-Source Software Tools for QSAR Model Development and Validation |
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11 Green Toxicology Meets Nanotoxicology: The Process of Sustainable Nanomaterial Development and Use |
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11.2 Green Toxicology Principles Applied to Nanomaterials |
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11.2.1 Principle 1: Design Benign |
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11.2.2 Principle 2: Test Early, Fail Safe |
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11.2.3 Principle 3: Avoid Exposure and thus Testing Needs |
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11.2.4 Principle 4: Make Testing Sustainable |
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11.2.5 Principle 5: Adopt Test Strategies That Are Not Mature Enough for Regulatory Use |
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11.2.6 Principle 6: Green Toxicology as Twenty-First-Century Toxicology |
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12 Issues for and Examples of Computational Design of "Safe-by-Design" Nanomaterials |
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12.2 Biocorona: Biologically Relevant Entity |
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12.3 System Complexity, Reproducibility, Data Generation, and Curation |
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12.3.1 Complexity of Nanoparticle-Biology Interactions |
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12.3.2 Experimental Issues |
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12.3.3 Data Availability, Reliability, and Processing Issues |
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515 | (2) |
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12.3.4 Social Issues and Medical Applications |
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517 | (1) |
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12.4 QSAR Modeling for Nanomaterials |
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518 | (1) |
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12.6 Toward Safety-by-Design |
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521 | (3) |
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12.7 Nanomedicine Implications |
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524 | (2) |
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12.8 Conclusions and Perspective |
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Index |
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