A new method to quantify parameters of membrane morphology from electron microscopy micrographs by texture recognition

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 4582-4594

  Torras, Carles ^a,b   Puig, Domènec ^b   Ángel García, Miguel ^c  

^a CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computation; Imaging; Membranes; Morphology; Porous media; Texture recognition

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTION MICROGRAPHS; MEMBRANE MORPHOLOGY; MEMBRANE TOPOLOGY; MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUE; PARAMETERS ESTIMATED; PARTICLE RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL MEASURES; TECHNIQUES USED; TEXTURE RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; MORPHOLOGY; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; TEXTURES;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 80051680821     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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