• openAccess   Feasibility of using organosilane dry-coated detoxified quartzes as raw material in different industrial sectors 

      Monfort, Eliseo; López Lilao, Ana; Ziemann, Christina; Creutzenberg, Otto; Bonvicini, Giuliana Elsevier (2021-11-10)
      Respirable crystalline silica (RCS), in the form of quartz and cristobalite from occupational sources, was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as carcinogenic to humans (category 1). In ...
    • openAccess   The puzzling issue of silica toxicity: are silanols bridging the gaps between surface states and pathogenicity? 

      Pavan, Cristina; Delle Piane, Massimo; Gullo, Maria; Filippi, Francesca; Fubini, Bice; Hoet, Peter; Horwell, Claire J.; Huaux, François; Lison, Dominique; Lo Giudice, Cristina; Martra, Gianmario; Monfort, Eliseo; Schins, Roel; Sulpizi, Marialore; Wegner, Karsten; Wyart-Remy, Michelle; Ziemann, Christina; Turci, Francesco Springer Nature (2019)
      Background: Silica continues to represent an intriguing topic of fundamental and applied research across various scientific fields, from geology to physics, chemistry, cell biology, and particle toxicology. The pathogenic ...