Polystyrene particles reveal pore substructure as they translocate

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7295-7302

  Pevarnik, Matthew ^a   Healy, Ken ^a,b   Toimil Molares, Maria Eugenia ^c   Morrison, Alan ^b   Létant, Sonia E ^d   Siwy, Zuzanna S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ion current; nanoparticle; nanopore; resistive pulse technique

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; ION CURRENTS; MULTIPLE PARTICLES; PARTICLE MOTIONS; PARTICLE SHAPE; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; POLYMER SPHERES; POLYSTYRENE PARTICLE; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; RESISTIVE-PULSE TECHNIQUE; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS;

ELECTROPHORESIS; NANOPARTICLES; NONIONIC SURFACTANTS; POLYSTYRENES;

NANOPORES;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSTYRENES; POROSITY; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84865604950     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302413u     Document Type: Article

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