Versailles project on advanced materials and standards (VAMAS) interlaboratory study on measuring the number concentration of colloidal gold nanoparticles

Minelli, Caterina; Wywijas, Magdalena; Bartczak, Dorota; Cuello-Nuñez, Susana; Infante, Heidi Goenaga; Deumer, Jerome; Gollwitzer, Christian; Krumrey, Michael; Murphy, Karen E.; Johnson, Monique E.; Montoro Bustos, Antonio R.; Strenge, Ingo H.; Faure, Bertrand; Høghøj, Peter; Tong, Vivian; Burr, Loïc; Norling, Karin; Höök, Fredrik; Roesslein, Matthias; Kocic, Jovana; Hendriks, Lyndsey; Kestens, Vikram; Ramaye, Yannic; Contreras Lopez, Maria C.; Auclair, Guy; Mehn, Dora; Gilliland, Douglas; Potthoff, Annegret; Oelschlägel, Kathrin; Tentschert, Jutta; Jungnickel, Harald; Krause, Benjamin C.; Hachenberger, Yves U.; Reichardt, Philipp; Luch, Andreas; Whittaker, Thomas E.; Stevens, Molly M.; Gupta, Shalini; Singh, Akash; Lin, Fang-hsin; Liu, Yi-Hung; Costa, Anna Luisa; Baldisserri, Carlo; Jawad, Rid; Andaloussi, Samir E.L.; Holme, Margaret N.; Lee, Tae Geol; Kwak, Minjeong; Kim, Jaeseok; Ziebel, Johanna; Guignard, Cedric; Cambier, Sebastien; Contal, Servane; Gutleb, Arno C.; “Kuba” Tatarkiewicz, Jan; Jankiewicz, Bartłomiej J.; Bartosewicz, Bartosz; Wu, Xiaochun; Fagan, Jeffrey A.; Elje, Elisabeth; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Dusinska, Maria; Kaur, Inder Preet; Price, David; Nesbitt, Ian; O′ Reilly, Sarah; Peters, Ruud J.B.; Bucher, Guillaume; Coleman, Dennis; Harrison, Angela J.; Ghanem, Antoine; Gering, Anne; McCarron, Eileen; Fitzgerald, Niamh; Cornelis, Geert; Tuoriniemi, Jani; Sakai, Midori; Tsuchida, Hidehisa; Maguire, Ciarán; Prina-Mello, Adriele; Lawlor, Alan J.; Adams, Jessica; Schultz, Carolin L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1578-5114; Constantin, Doru; Thanh, Nguyen Thi Kim; Tung, Le Duc; Panariello, Luca; Damilos, Spyridon; Gavriilidis, Asterios; Lynch, Iseult; Fryer, Benjamin; Carrazco Quevedo, Ana; Guggenheim, Emily; Briffa, Sophie; Valsami-Jones, Eugenia; Huang, Yuxiong; Keller, Arturo A.; Kinnunen, Virva-Tuuli; Perämäki, Siiri; Krpetic, Zeljka; Greenwood, Michael; Shard, Alexander G.. 2022 Versailles project on advanced materials and standards (VAMAS) interlaboratory study on measuring the number concentration of colloidal gold nanoparticles. Nanoscale, 14 (12). 4690-4704. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NR07775A

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D1NR07775A

Abstract/Summary

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.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NR07775A
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Pollution (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	2040-3364
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
NORA Subject Terms:	Chemistry
Date made live:	17 Jan 2024 10:02 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536676

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NR07775A

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Pollution (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

2040-3364

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.

NORA Subject Terms:

Chemistry