Behaviour of environmental aquatic nanocolloids when separated by split-flow thin-cell fractionation (SPLITT)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 405, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 317-323

  De Momi, Anna ^a   Lead, Jamie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D EEM; AFM; Environmental aquatic colloids; Nanoparticles; SPLITT

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUORESCENCE; LAKE POLLUTION; LAMINAR FLOW; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; METALS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SEPARATION; SIZE SEPARATION; STANDARDS;

3D EEM; AFM; CELL FRACTIONATION; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL AQUATIC COLLOIDS; FLOW REGIMES; FLUORESCENCE DATA; LAKE WATER; LAMINAR FLOW REGIMES; MEAN DISTANCES; METAL FRACTIONATION; METAL SPECIATION ANALYSIS; MOLAR MASSES; MOLECULAR PROBES; MONO DISPERSED; NANO-COLLOIDS; NANOPARTICLES; OPERATING MODES; PARTICLE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; RESIDENCE TIME; SPLITT; SURFACE DENSITIES;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

LAKE WATER; NANOPARTICLE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COLLOID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRACTIONATION; LAKE WATER; LAMINAR FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; RESIDENCE TIME; SEPARATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL FRACTIONATION; COLLOID; FLUORESCENCE; LAMINAR FLOW; MOLECULAR PROBE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT FLOW THIN CELL FRACTIONATION; WATER SAMPLING;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; COLLOIDS; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 52949153947     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.032     Document Type: Article

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