Abstract
The production of commercially available products marketed to contain silver nanoparticles is rapidly increasing. Species-specific toxicity is a phenomenon associated with many elements, including silver, making it imperative to develop a method to identify and quantify the various forms of silver (namely, silver ions vs. silver nanoparticles) possibly present in these products. In this study a method was developed using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with ultraviolet (UV-VIS) and inductively coupled mass spectrometric (ICP-MS) detection to separate starch stabilized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and silver ions (Ag+) by cation exchange chromatography with 0.5 M nitric acid mobile phase. The silver nanoparticles and ions were baseline resolved with an ICP-MS response linear over four orders of magnitude, 0.04 mg kg- 1 detection limit, and 90% chromatographic recovery for silver solutions containing ions and starch stabilized silver nanoparticles smaller than 100 nm.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 173-179 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy |
Volume | 100 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Oct 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Chromatography UV
- Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
- Nanoparticle
- Silver
- Speciation