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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2017 Jan 19;12(2):355–371. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2016.172

Table 4. Fe2O3 ENM characterization.

ENM powder properties Colloidal properties in DMEM + 10% (vol/vol) heat-inactivated FBS
SSA (m2/g) dBET (nm) dXRD (nm) dH (nm) PdI ζ (mV) σ (mS/cm) ρEV
54.7 20.9 27.2 976.0 0.40 -14.4 13.8 1.483

SSA: specific surface area measured by nitrogen adsorption by the Brunauer-Emmet-Teller (BET) method, dBET: primary particle diameter determined from SSA. dXRD: particle diameter measured by X-ray diffraction, dH: hydrodynamic diameter measured by DLS, PdI: polydispersity index, ζ: zeta potential, σ: specific conductance, ρEV: effective density measured by VCM.