The inline coupling of the field-amplified sample injection (FASI) to Taylor dispersion analysis (TDA) was used to characterize low-UV absorbing carboxylated silica nanoparticles (cNPs). The hydrodynamic diameters (D) were measured by using a commercial capillary electrophoresis instrument. The proposed methodology did not require any complicated instruments or chromophoric dye to increase the detection sensitivity. A practical method based on a half-Gaussian fitting was proposed for the data processing. The results obtained by this method were compared with those derived from dynamic light scattering (DLS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses. From these results, it appeared that the size derived by TDA is in excellent agreement with those measured by DLS and TEM, as demonstrated by stable nanoparticles with narrow size distributions. Intermediate precision relative standard deviations less than 5% were obtained by FASI-TDA. The effect of the FASI-induced cNP peak dispersion on the reliability of the results was discussed in detail.
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