Rationalizing nanomaterial sizes measured by atomic force microscopy, flow field-flow fractionation, and dynamic light scattering: Sample preparation, polydispersity, and particle structure

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6134-6142

  Baalousha, M ^a   Lead, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; FLOW FIELD-FLOW FRACTIONATION; HARD SPHERES; HYDRODYNAMIC DIAMETER; MONODISPERSE; NANOMATERIAL; NON-SPHERICAL; PARTICLE STRUCTURE; POLYDISPERSITY INDICES; REMAINING DIFFERENCES; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SAMPLE PREPARATION PROCEDURE; SCATTERED DATA; SIZE EVALUATION; SIZE MEASUREMENTS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMER; SAMPLING; TOXICOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOTOXICOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

ANALYTIC SAMPLE PREPARATION METHODS; CALIBRATION; FRACTIONATION, FIELD FLOW; GOLD; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 84861878003     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301167x     Document Type: Article

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