PARTICLE MEASUREMENT

Extracellular vesicle characterisation you can count on

Measure EV size, concentration and zeta potential at the single-particle level with Izon’s particle measurement systems.

Illustration of an extracellular vesicle, cut away to show its membrane, surface proteins and nucleic acid cargo

Measurement down to 30 nm

Get a complete picture of your sample, including its smallest EVs.

High-resolution, repeatable sizing

Separate subpopulations into distinct, well-defined peaks, run after run.

Single-particle zeta potential

Characterise EV surface charge alongside size and concentration.

Distinct populations, clearly separated

Single-particle measurement keeps distinct populations distinct. Spike calibration particles into a milk-derived EV sample and the Exoid shows them as their own peak, cleanly separated from the vesicles. You see subpopulations and contaminants, instead of one blended mean.

Izon histogram of particle size against concentration for a milk-derived EV sample, with a separate CPC calibration spike resolved near 355 nm.

Small EVs, sized and counted

Light scattering weakens steeply as particles get smaller, so small, low-contrast EVs are easy to lose in background noise. Resistive pulse sensing detects each vesicle electrically as it passes through a nanopore on the Pulsoid, so the smallest EVs in your sample are sized and counted.

Resolve what light scattering blurs together

In a published comparison, one four-population bead mixture was measured by tunable resistive pulse sensing (TRPS), NTA and multi-angle DLS. TRPS resolved all four sizes. NTA returned one broad envelope, and MADLS a single mode¹.

One particle population measured by TRPS, NTA and MADLS

Nanopore sensing vs light-based sizing

NTA
DLS / MADLS
How particles are detected
Light scattering
Light scattering
Size resolution¹
Low
Very low
Particle concentration
Estimated
Limited
Zeta potential
Some instruments
Ensemble average (ELS)
Independent of refractive index
No
No

Size resolution: the ability to separate particle populations of similar size.

¹ Vogel R. et al. (2021) J Extracell Vesicles 10(3):e12052, Fig. 3. Reproduced under CC BY 4.0. Measured by TRPS.

Choose the right tool for your workflow

Characterise your isolates particle by particle for fundamental research, biomarker discovery, health and disease comparisons, or storage studies. Choose the instrument that fits your samples.

The Pulsoid instrument

The Pulsoid

Strengths
Speed and simplicity
Technology
Nanopore Pulse Sensing (NPS)
Nanopores
Solid-state, silicon technology
Range
30 nm – 210 nm. Additional nanopore chips are in development to broaden this range.
The Exoid instrument

The Exoid

Strengths
Versatility across sample types
Technology
Tunable Resistive Pulse Sensing (TRPS)
Nanopores
Tunable, polyurethane
Range
40 nm to 11 µm

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