Interfaced SEM/EDX and micro-Raman Spectrometry for characterisation of heterogeneous environmental particles - Fundamental and practical challenges

Microchemical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-72

  Worobiec, Anna ^a   Potgieter Vermaak, Sanja ^a   Brooker, Alan ^a,b   Darchuk, Larysa ^a   Stefaniak, Elzbieta ^a   Van Grieken, Rene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RENISHAW PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual environmental particles; MRS; SEM EDX

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450221691     PISSN: 0026265X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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