Preparation and Characterisation of Highly Loaded Fluorescent Chitosan Nanoparticles

Table 2

Mean particle size, PDI, and zeta potential of 0.05 and 0.1% w/v HMW CS nanoparticles at different concentrations of DS, 𝑛=3.

	0.05% w/v CS			0.1% w/v CS
[DS] (% w/v)	Mean particle size (nm); ±SD	Mean PDI; ±SD	Mean zeta potential (mV); ±SD	Mean particle size (nm); ±SD	Mean PDI; ±SD	Mean zeta potential (mV); ±SD
0.15	373.1±23.33	0.3±0.05	−32.5±1.23	1082.1±245.67	0.90±0.08	+72.5±4.27
0.1	1141.3±987.10	0.4±0.13	+36.4±2.39	1532.7±284.65	0.98±0.01	+84.8±6.69
0.05	603.4±27.90	0.8±0.12	+78.1±1.46	1439.7±129.74	1.00±0	+89.2±2.98