Separation of silver ions and starch modified silver nanoparticles using high performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet and inductively coupled mass spectrometric detection

Traci A. Hanley, Ryan Saadawi, Peng Zhang, Joseph A. Caruso, Julio Landero-Figueroa

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)173-179
Number of pages7
JournalSpectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy
Volume100
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Chromatography UV
  • Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
  • Nanoparticle
  • Silver
  • Speciation

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