Versailles project on advanced materials and standards (VAMAS) interlaboratory study on measuring the number concentration of colloidal gold nanoparticles
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Journal Article
Abstract
We describe the outcome of a large international interlaboratory study of the measurement of particle number concentration of colloidal nanoparticles, project 10 of the technical working area 34, "Nanoparticle Populations" of the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS). A total of 50 laboratories delivered results for the number concentration of 30 nm gold colloidal nanoparticles measured using particle tracking analysis (PTA), single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICP-MS), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) light spectroscopy, centrifugal liquid sedimentation (CLS) and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The study provides quantitative data to evaluate the repeatability of these methods and their reproducibility in the measurement of number concentration of model nanoparticle systems following a common measurement protocol. We find that the population-averaging methods of SAXS, CLS and UV-Vis have high measurement repeatability and reproducibility, with between-labs variability of 2.6%, 11% and 1.4% respectively. However, results may be significantly biased for reasons including inaccurate material properties whose values are used to compute the number concentration. Particle-counting method results are less reproducibile than population-averaging methods, with measured between-labs variability of 68% and 46% for PTA and spICP-MS respectively. This study provides the stakeholder community with important comparative data to underpin measurement reproducibility and method validation for number concentration of nanoparticles.
Date Issued
2022-03-28
Date Acceptance
2022-02-11
Citation
Nanoscale, 2022, 14 (12), pp.4690-4704
ISSN
2040-3364
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry
Start Page
4690
End Page
4704
Journal / Book Title
Nanoscale
Volume
14
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35262538
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Technology
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Physics, Applied
Chemistry
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Materials Science
Physics
PLASMA-MASS SPECTROMETRY
SIZE DISTRIBUTION
PARTICLE
SCATTERING
QUANTIFICATION
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
02 Physical Sciences
03 Chemical Sciences
10 Technology
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Date Publish Online
2022-03-09