Journal
PARTICLE & PARTICLE SYSTEMS CHARACTERIZATION
Volume 37, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.202000032
Keywords
colorimetric methods; iron oxides; iron quantification; magnetic nanoparticles; particle size
Funding
- European Commission [GA 685795]
- Spanish MINECO [SAF2016-79593-P, MAT2017-88148R, MAT2015-71806-R, PGC2018-096016-B-I00]
- Fondo Social de la DGA (grupos DGA)
- Nanocare Network (Spanish MCIU) [RED2018-102469-T]
- Ramon y Cajal program [RYC-2014-15512]
- Santander-Universidad Zaragoza Fellowship program
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Advanced uses of smartphones are changing lifestyles, and may have a great impact in materials science in the near future. In this work, the use of these devices to develop fast, simple, and cheap methods to characterize magnetic nanoparticle suspensions is tested. A series of dilutions of a wide library of magnetic nanoparticles, composed of iron oxide materials in the range between 3 and 43 nm, with two different shapes and four different coatings is prepared. The colloid color is analyzed using the RGB (red, green, blue) color model. Ratios of these parameters are correlated with the suspension iron concentration and with the nanoparticles average size. A linear relationship between the color (in particular the G/R ratio) and both the colloid iron content and the particles size is found. The link between these parameters allows the development of two new methods to determine either the concentration or the particle size of magnetic nanoparticle suspensions just by acquiring images from suspensions of iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles with a smartphone.
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