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Jiaojie Tan1, Yong Yang, Hind El Hadri
1Materials Measurement Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA. vince.hackley@nist.gov.
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A fast, quantitative method for determining the dimensions of nanorods (i.e., length and diameter) is described, based on hyphenation of differential mobility analysis (DMA) with single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICP-MS). Seven gold nanorod samples with different dimensions (diameters 11.8 nm to 38.2 nm, aspect ratios 1.8 to 6.9) were used to validate the method. We demonstrate that DMA-spICP-MS can (1) achieve quantification of both length and diameter comparable with TEM analysis, (2) make statistically meaningful measurements in minutes at low concentrations (<108 mL-1) and (3) separate nanorods from spheres and quantify the geometry of each population. A robustness analysis of this method was performed to evaluate potential biases in this approach.
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