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Letter to the Editor Concerning "Simultaneous, Single-Particle Measurements of Size and Loading Give Insights into the Structure of Drug-Delivery Nanoparticles"
Summary
This is a letter to the editor critiquing measurement errors in a published study on sizing drug delivery nanoparticles. The author argues that excess variance in particle sizing methods undermines the validity of the original findings and could mislead applications in both pharmaceutical and nanoplastic hazard assessment contexts. The letter proposes that measurement error models are needed to address this widespread issue.
The vexing error of excess variance in the sizing of single particles degrades accuracy in applications ranging from quality control of nanoparticle products to hazard assessment of nanoplastic byproducts. The particular importance of lipid nanoparticles for vaccine and medicine delivery motivates this comment on a publication$^{ extrm{1}}$ in ACS Nano. In ref 1, the benchmark measurements of a nanoparticle standard manifest large errors of the size distribution that contradict the claim of validation. Such errors can bias the correlation of fluorescence intensity as an optical proxy for the molecular loading of lipid nanoparticles and give misleading insights from power-law models of intensity$-$size data. Looking forward, measurement error models have the potential to address this widespread issue.