Versailles project on advanced materials and standards (VAMAS) interlaboratory study on measuring the number concentration of colloidal gold nanoparticles
Journal article, 2022

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.

Author

Caterina Minelli

National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Magdalena Wywijas

ET Enterprises

National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Dorota Bartczak

National Measurement Laboratory

Susana Cuello-Nunez

National Measurement Laboratory

Heidi Goenaga Infante

National Measurement Laboratory

Jerome Deumer

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Christian Gollwitzer

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Michael Krumrey

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)

Karen E. Murphy

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Monique E. Johnson

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Antonio R. Montoro Bustos

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Ingo H. Strenge

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

University of Siegen

Bertrand Faure

Xenocs

Peter Hoghoj

Xenocs

Vivian Tong

National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Loic Burr

Centre suisse d'électronique et de microtechnique (CSEM)

Karin Norling

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemical Biology

Fredrik Höök

Chalmers, Physics, Nano and Biophysics

Matthias Roesslein

Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)

Jovana Kocic

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Lyndsey Hendriks

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Tofwerk AG

Vikram Kestens

European Commission (EC)

Yannic Ramaye

European Commission (EC)

Maria C. Contreras Lopez

European Commission (EC)

Guy Auclair

European Commission (EC)

Dora Mehn

European Commission (EC)

Douglas Gilliland

European Commission (EC)

Annegret Potthoff

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur

Kathrin Oelschlagel

Topas GmbH

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur

Jutta Tentschert

German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

Harald Jungnickel

German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

Benjamin C. Krause

German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

Yves U. Hachenberger

German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

Philipp Reichardt

German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

Andreas Luch

German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

Thomas E. Whittaker

University College London (UCL)

Imperial College London

Molly M. Stevens

Imperial College London

Shalini Gupta

Indian Institute of Technology

Akash Singh

Indian Institute of Technology

Université de Lyon

Fang-hsin Lin

Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan

Yi-Hung Liu

Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan

Anna Luisa Costa

Institute of science and technology for ceramics (ISTEC-CNR)

Carlo Baldisserri

Institute of science and technology for ceramics (ISTEC-CNR)

Rid Jawad

Karolinska Institutet

Samir E. L. Andaloussi

Karolinska Institutet

Margaret N. Holme

Karolinska Institutet

Imperial College London

Tae Geol Lee

Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS)

Minjeong Kwak

Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS)

Jaeseok Kim

Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS)

Johanna Ziebel

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Cedric Guignard

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Sebastien Cambier

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Servane Contal

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Arno C. Gutleb

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Jan Kuba Tatarkiewicz

MANTA Instruments Inc

Bartlomiej J. Jankiewicz

Military University of Technology

Bartosz Bartosewicz

Military University of Technology

Xiaochun Wu

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jeffrey A. Fagan

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Elisabeth Elje

University of Oslo

Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)

Elise Runden-Pran

Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)

Maria Dusinska

Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)

Inder Preet Kaur

Nottingham Trent University

David Price

PerkinElmer

Ian Nesbitt

Public Analyst's Laboratory

Sarah O'Reilly

Public Analyst's Laboratory

Ruud J. B. Peters

Wageningen University and Research

Guillaume Bucher

Service Commun des Laboratoires

Dennis Coleman

Smith & Nephew

Angela J. Harrison

Smith & Nephew

Antoine Ghanem

Solvay S.A.

Anne Gering

Solvay S.A.

Eileen McCarron

State Laboratory

Niamh Fitzgerald

State Laboratory

Geert Cornelis

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Jani Tuoriniemi

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Midori Sakai

Toray Research Center

Hidehisa Tsuchida

Toray Research Center

Ciaran Maguire

Trinity College Dublin

Adriele Prina-Mello

Trinity College Dublin

Alan J. Lawlor

Lancaster University

Jessica Adams

Lancaster University

Carolin L. Schultz

UK Centre For Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)

Doru Constantin

University Paris-Saclay

Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh

University College London (UCL)

Le Duc Tung

University College London (UCL)

Luca Panariello

Imperial College London

University College London (UCL)

Spyridon Damilos

University College London (UCL)

Asterios Gavriilidis

University College London (UCL)

Iseult Lynch

University of Birmingham

Benjamin Fryer

University of Birmingham

Ana Carrazco Quevedo

University of Birmingham

Emily Guggenheim

University of Birmingham

Sophie Briffa

University of Birmingham

Eugenia Valsami-Jones

University of Birmingham

Yuxiong Huang

University of California at Santa Barbara

Arturo A. Keller

University of California at Santa Barbara

Virva-Tuuli Kinnunen

University of Jyväskylä

Siiri Peramaki

University of Jyväskylä

Zeljka Krpetic

University of Salford

Michael Greenwood

University of Salford

Alexander G. Shard

National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Nanoscale

2040-3364 (ISSN) 2040-3372 (eISSN)

Vol. 14 4690-4704

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Physical Chemistry

Other Chemistry Topics

DOI

10.1039/d1nr07775a

PubMed

35262538

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5/29/2024