Abstract
A thorough understanding of nanoparticle surfaces is essential to many potential applications. In particular, measurement of coatings or overlayers on nanoparticles is of great importance, due to the ubiquity of core-shell or coated nanoparticle systems. Due to their surface-sensitivity, electron spectroscopies are ideally suited to the characterisation of nanostructures. While several methods and analyses for characterisation of such nanoparticles using electron spectroscopies have been reported, there is a growing need for these to be addressed by standardization bodies. Here we present the development of an ISO technical report on the topic of measurement of nanoparticle coatings using electron spectroscopies, and relevant considerations.
