Characterizing nanoparticles in complex biological media and physiological fluids with depolarized dynamic light scattering
- Balog, Sandor Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Rodriguez-Lorenzo, Laura Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Monnier, Christophe A. Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Obiols-Rabas, Marc Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden
- Rothen-Rutishauser, Barbara Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Schurtenberger, Peter Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden
- Petri-Fink, Alke Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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29.01.2015
Published in:
- Nanoscale. - 2015, vol. 7, no. 14, p. 5991-5997
English
Light scattering is one of the few techniques available to adequately characterize suspended nanoparticles (NPs) in real time and in situ. However, when it comes to NPs in multicomponent and optically complex aqueous matrices – such as biological media and physiological fluids – light scattering suffers from lack of selectivity, as distinguishing the relevant optical signals from the irrelevant ones is very challenging. We meet this challenge by building on depolarized scattering: Unwanted signals from the matrix are completely suppressed. This approach yields information with an unprecedented signal-to-noise ratio in favour of the NPs and NP-biomolecule corona complexes, which in turn opens the frontier to scattering-based studies addressing the behaviour of NPs in complex physiological/biological fluids.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Chimie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Physics
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 235569
- DOI 10.1039/C4NR06538G
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/304188
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