Particle size distributions by transmission electron microscopy: An interlaboratory comparison case study

Metrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 663-678

  Rice, Stephen B ^a   Chan, Christopher ^b   Brown, Scott C ^b   Eschbach, Peter ^c   Han, Li ^d   Ensor, David S ^d   Stefaniak, Aleksandr B ^e   Bonevich, John ^f   Vladár, András E ^f   Walker, Angela R Hight ^f   Zheng, Jiwen ^g   Starnes, Catherine ^h   Stromberg, Arnold ^h   Ye, Jia ⁱ   Grulke, Eric A ⁱ  

^a CABOT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^d RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; DIAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; NANOPARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE STANDARD ERROR;

AUTOMATION; MODELS; NANOPARTICLES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84888986282     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/50/6/663     Document Type: Article

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