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Muller K, Unice K, Panko J, Ferrari BJD, Breider F, Wagner S. 2025. Risk assessment of tire wear in the environment—A literature review. Environ Sci Process Impacts 27(8):2212-2232; doi: 10.1039/d5em00088b. PMID: 40569214.

Muller K, Unice K, Panko J, Wagner S. 2025. Tire emissions during the use phase of tires – Current and future trends. Environ Sci Adv 4(9):1344-1363; doi: 10.1039/d4va00407h.

Lane R, Gill S, Miller EL, Kennedy S, Shankar P, Williams T, et al. Rolling along: State of the science for tire related chemicals 6PPD and 6PPD-quinone. Abstract 4.22.P-Mo-115, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 45^th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX, October 2024.

Mayer PM, Moran KD, Miller EL, Brander SM, Harper S, Garcia-Jaramillo M, Carrasco-Navarro KT,…Fender CL. 2024. Where the rubber meets the road: Emerging environmental impacts of tire wear particles and their chemical cocktails. Sci Total Environ 927(June 1)171153; doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171153. PMID: 38460683.

LaPlaca SB, Rice CD, van den Hurk P. 2022. Chronic toxicity of tire crumb rubber particles to mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) in episodic exposures. Sci Total Environ 846(Nov 10):157447; doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157447. PMID: 35853528.

LaPlaca SB, van den Hurk P. Toxicity of a pulsed chronic exposure to crumb rubber particles in mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus). Platform presentation at 42nd annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, North America Chapter, Portland, OR, November 2021.

Kreider ML, Unice KM, Panko JM. 2020. Human health risk assessment of tire and road wear particles (TRWP) in air. Hum Ecol Risk Assess 26(10):2567-2585; doi: 10.1080/10807039.2019.1674633.

LaPlaca SB, van den Hurk P. 2020. Toxicological effects of micronized tire crumb rubber on mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) and fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas). Ecotoxicology 29(5):524–534; doi: 10.1007/s10646-020-02210-7.

Unice KM, Weeber MP, Abramson MM, Reid RCD, van Gils JAG, Markus AA, Vethaak AD, Panko JM. 2019. Characterizing export of land-based microplastics to the estuary – Part II: Sensitivity analysis of an integrated geospatial microplastic transport modeling assessment of tire and road wear particles. Sci Tot Environ 646(Jan 1):1650–1659; doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.301.

Unice KM, Weeber MP, Abramson MM, Reid RCD, van Gils JAG, Markus AA, Vethaak AD, Panko JM. 2019. Characterizing export of land-based microplastics to the estuary — Part I: Application of integrated geospatial microplastic transport models to assess tire and road wear particles in the Seine watershed. Sci Tot Environ 646(Jan 1):1639–1649; doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.368.

Panko JM, Hitchcock KM, Fuller GW, Green D. 2019. Evaluation of tire wear contribution to PM2.5 in urban environments. Atmosph 10(2):99; doi: 10.3390/atmos10020099.

Kreider ML, Hynds ES, Panko JM. Evaluation of tire and road wear particles (TRWP) in air in Delhi, India. Poster at Society of Toxicology 58th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 2019.

LaPlaca SB. Toxicological effects of tire wear particles on mummichogs and fathead minnows. Poster presentation at annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, North America Chapter, Sacramento, CA, November 2018.

Panko J, Kreider M, Unice K. 2018. Review of tire wear emissions. Chapter 7 in: Amato (ed)., Non-Exhaust Emissions — An Urban Air Quality Problem for Public Health; Impact and Mitigation Measures. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 147–160.

Unice KM, Bare JL, Kreider ML, Panko JM. Evaluation of leachate from tire and road wear particles (TRWP) upflow percolation column tests. Poster at Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 36th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015.

Kreider ML, Cyrs WD, Tosiano MA, Panko JM. 2015. Evaluation of quantitative exposure assessment method for nanomaterials in mixed dust environments: Application in tire manufacturing facilities. Ann Occup Hyg 59(9):1122–1134; doi: 10.1093/annhyg/mev052.

Unice KM, Bare JL, Kreider ML, Panko JM. 2015. Evaluation of leachate from tire and road wear particles (TRWP) upflow percolation column tests. Poster Presentation at Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 36th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015.

Cyrs WD, Tosiano MA, Panko JM, Kreider ML. Use of a novel method to assess exposure to nanoscale carbon black and amorphous silica at two tire manufacturing facilities. Presentation at The American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition (AIHce), San Antonio, TX, June 2014.

Panko JM, Kreider NK, Unice KM. Tire industry project — An industry-wide product sustainability initiative. Session: Stewardship & Sustainability, Presentation at The American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition (AIHce), Montreal, Quebec, May 2013.

Panko JM, Chu J, Kreider ML, Unice KM. 2013. Measurement of airborne concentrations of tire and road wear particles in urban and rural areas of France, Japan, and the United States. Atmos Environ 72(June):192–199; doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.01.040.