Surfactant-ultrafine particle interactions: What we can learn from PM10 studies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1775, 2000, Pages 2707-2718

  Gehr, Peter ^a   Geiser, Marianne ^a   Im Hof, Vinzenz ^a   Schürch, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airways; Particle cell interaction; Particle surfactant interaction; Primary defence barrier; Surface forces; Surfactant

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347303050     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0679     Document Type: Article

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