Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1515, Issue -, Pages 196-208Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2017.07.098
Keywords
ZnO particles; Centrifugal FFF; Asymmetrical flow FFF; Cosmetic products; Particle extraction; Particle sizing; Sample preparation
Funding
- University of Ferrara (FIR-Fondo per l'Incentivazione alla Ricerca)
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The dimensional characterization of insoluble, inorganic particles, such as zinc oxide ZnO, dispersed in cosmetic or pharmaceutical formulations, is of great interest considering the current need of declaring the possible presence of nanomaterials on the label of commercial products. This work compares the separation abilities of Centrifugal- and Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation techniques (CF3 and AF4, respectively), equipped with UV-vis, MALS and DLS detectors, in size sorting ZnO particles, both as pristine powders and after their extraction from cosmetic matrices. ZnO particles, bare and superficially modified with triethoxycaprylyl silane, were used as test materials. To identify the most suitable procedure necessary to isolate the ZnO particles from the cosmetic matrix, two O/W and two W/O emulsions were formulated on purpose. The suspensions, containing the extracted particles ZnO, were separated by both Field-Flow Fractionation (FFF) techniques to establish a common analysis protocol, applicable for the analysis of ZnO particles extracted from three commercial products, sold in Europe for the baby skin care. Key aspects of this study were the selection of an appropriate dispersing agent enabling the particles to stay in stable suspensions (>24 hand the use of multiple detectors (UV-vis, MALS and DLS) coupled online with the FFF channels, to determine the particle dimensions without using the retention parameters. Between the two FFF techniques, CF3 revealed to be the most robust one, able to sort all suspensions created in this work. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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