Detection and characterization of silver nanoparticles in chicken meat by asymmetric flow field flow fractionation with detection by conventional or single particle ICP-MS

Autor(en)
Katrin Loeschner, Jana Navratilova, Carsten Kobler, Kristian Molhave, Stephan Wagner, Frank von der Kammer, Erik H. Larsen
Abstrakt

A method of analysis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in chicken meat was developed. The homogenized chicken meat sample, which was spiked with AgNPs, was subjected to enzymolysis by Proteinase K for 40 min at 37 C. Transmission electron microscopy and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) in single particle mode were used to characterize the number-based size distribution of AgNPs in the meat digestate. Because similar size distributions were found in the meat digestate and in the aqueous suspension of AgNPs used for spiking the meat, it was shown that no detectable dissolution of the AgNPs took place during the sample preparation stage. The digestate was injected into the asymmetric flow field flow fractionation (AF4) -ICP-MS system, which enabled fractionation of nanoparticles from the remaining meat matrix, and resulted in one large peak in the fractograms as well as two smaller peaks eluting close to the void volume. The recovery of silver contained in the large AgNP peak was around 80 %. Size determination of AgNPs in the meat matrix, based on external size calibration of the AF4 channel, was hampered by non-ideal (early elution) behavior of the AgNPs. Single particle ICP-MS was applied for determination of the number-based particle size distribution of AgNPs in collected fractions. The presented work describes for the first time the coupling of AF4 and ICP-MS for AgNP separation in a food matrix.

Organisation(en)
Externe Organisation(en)
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Journal
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Band
405
Seiten
8185-8195
Anzahl der Seiten
11
ISSN
1618-2642
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-013-7228-z
Publikationsdatum
10-2013
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
210006 Nanotechnologie, 104002 Analytische Chemie, 104023 Umweltchemie, 105904 Umweltforschung
Schlagwörter
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