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- Title
Isotope Dilution Analysis for Particle Mass Determination Using Single-Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry: Application to Size Determination of Silver Nanoparticles.
- Authors
Aramendía, Maite; Leite, Diego; Resano, Javier; Resano, Martín; Billimoria, Kharmen; Goenaga-Infante, Heidi
- Abstract
This paper describes methodology based on the application of isotope dilution (ID) in single-particle inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometry (spICP-ToFMS) mode for the mass determination (and sizing) of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). For this purpose, and considering that the analytical signal in spICP-MS shows a transient nature, an isotope dilution equation used for online work was adapted and used for the mass determination of individual NPs. The method proposed measures NP isotope ratios in a particle-to-particle approach, which allows for the characterization of NP mass (and size) distributions and not only the mean size of the distribution. For the best results to be obtained, our method development (undertaken through the analysis of the reference material NIST RM 8017) included the optimization of the working conditions for the best precision and accuracy in isotope ratios of individual NPs, which had been only reported to date with multicollector instruments. It is shown that the precision of the measurement of these ratios is limited by the magnitude of the signals obtained for each NP in the mass analyzer (counting statistics). However, the uncertainty obtained for the sizing of NPs in this approach can be improved by careful method optimization, where the most important parameters are shown to be the selection of the spike isotopic composition and concentration. Although only AgNPs were targeted in this study, the method presented, with the corresponding adaptations, could be applied to NPs of any other composition that include an element with different naturally available isotopes.
- Subjects
INDUCTIVELY coupled plasma mass spectrometry; NATIONAL Institute of Standards &; Technology (U.S.); ISOTOPE dilution analysis; SILVER nanoparticles; PARTICLE analysis
- Publication
Nanomaterials (2079-4991), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 17, p2392
- ISSN
2079-4991
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nano13172392