Preparation and Characterisation of Highly Loaded Fluorescent Chitosan Nanoparticles

Table 3

Effect of solvent used to dissolve SR101 on mean particle size, PDI, and zeta potential of SR-101-loaded CS nanoparticles, 𝑛=3.

	Distilled water			Methanol
	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
0.1% DS & LMW; CS	394.07±23.29	0.38±0.02	+54.30±1.18	620.03±185.16	0.51±0.14	+33.68±16.46
0.05% DS & HMW; CS	499.17±21.22	0.67±0.12	+69.50±1.70	687.53±222.36	0.59±0.18	+44.78±16.31