| Literature DB >> 26894759 |
Hind El Hadri1,2, Elijah J Petersen3, Michael R Winchester4.
Abstract
The effect of ICP-MS instrument sensitivity drift on the accuracy of nanoparticle (NP) size measurements using single particle (sp)ICP-MS is investigated. Theoretical modeling and experimental measurements of the impact of instrument sensitivity drift are in agreement and indicate that drift can impact the measured size of spherical NPs by up to 25 %. Given this substantial bias in the measured size, a method was developed using an internal standard to correct for the impact of drift and was shown to accurately correct for a decrease in instrument sensitivity of up to 50 % for 30 and 60 nm gold nanoparticles. Graphical Abstract Correction of nanoparticle size measurement by spICP-MS using an internal standard.Entities:
Keywords: Drift correction; Gold nanoparticles; Instrument sensitivity drift; Internal standard; Single-particle ICP-MS
Year: 2016 PMID: 26894759 PMCID: PMC4960661 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-016-9397-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Anal Bioanal Chem ISSN: 1618-2642 Impact factor: 4.142