Abstract
Water-dispersible superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) were synthesized by thermal decomposition of iron(III) acetylacetonate in the presence of triethylene glycol (TREG). The resulting TREG-coated SPIONs were not stable, undergoing agglomeration and loss of the TREG coating under prolonged storage at 37 °C or in the presence of increased saline concentrations. To avoid these problems, stable colloidal TREG-coated SPIONs were obtained by two different procedures: (i) dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) ligand-exchange reactions to obtain DMSA-coated SPIONs and (ii) chemical modification of the TREG coating. Both procedures, but especially the DMSA exchange, increased the stability of the SPION suspension. Finally, the functionality of both types of particles for biological applications was demonstrated by conjugating a model antibody to the end carboxyl groups of the SPIONs and testing the immunoreactivity of the final antibody–particle conjugates by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
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