Hi everyone,

I have 1.5 mL eppendorf tubes with nanoparticle pellets in water (ZIF8, UIO-66 and UIO-66-PEG). No matter how hard I try to homogenise them into single nanoparticles, using pipetting up and down and vortexing, they immediately clump into a pellet. Do you think that if I put an eppendorf tube with these NPs into a waterbath sonicator, it would be possible to break these clumps into single NP-solution without forming clumps?

Would the walls of eppendorf tube absorb the sonic waves and therefore prevent efficient nanoparticle homogenisation?

Thanks,

Kind regards,

Maria

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