Exposure assessment of nanosized engineered agglomerates and aggregates using Nuclepore filter

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Sheng Chieh ^a   Wang, Jing ^b,c   Fissan, Heinz ^d,e   Pui, David Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Analytical Chemistry   (Switzerland)

^d Institute of Energy and Environmental Technology IUTA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capillary tube model; Engineered aggregates and agglomerates; Exposure assessment; Fractal dimension; Nanoparticle size distribution; Nuclepore filter

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; CAPILLARY TUBES; DEPOSITION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

CAPILLARY TUBE MODEL; ENGINEERED AGGREGATES AND AGGLOMERATES; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; NANOPARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEPORE;

AIR FILTERS;

NANOPARTICLE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY TUBE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPOSURE; MEMBRANE FILTER; NANOENGINEERING; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOOT;

EID: 84883198339     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-013-1955-0     Document Type: Article

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