Taylor dispersion of nanoparticles
- Urban, Dominic A. Adolphe Merkle InstituteUniversity of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Milosevic, Ana Adolphe Merkle InstituteUniversity of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Crippa, Federica Adolphe Merkle InstituteUniversity of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Rothen-Rutishauser, Barbara Adolphe Merkle InstituteUniversity of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Petri-Fink, Alke Adolphe Merkle InstituteUniversity of Fribourg, Switzerland - Chemistry DepartmentUniversity of Fribourg, Switzerland
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01.08.2017
Published in:
- Journal of Nanoparticle Research. - 2017, vol. 19, no. 8, p. 287
English
The ability to detect and accurately characterize particles is required by many fields of nanotechnology, including materials science, nanotoxicology, and nanomedicine. Among the most relevant physicochemical properties of nanoparticles, size and the related surface-to-volume ratio are fundamental ones. Taylor dispersion combines three independent phenomena to determine particle size: optical extinction, translational diffusion, and sheer-enhanced dispersion of nanoparticles subjected to a steady laminar flow. The interplay of these defines the apparent size. Considering that particles in fact are never truly uniform nor monodisperse, we rigorously address particle polydispersity and calculate the apparent particle size measured by Taylor dispersion analysis. We conducted case studies addressing aqueous suspensions of model particles and large-scale-produced “industrial” particles of both academic and commercial interest of various core materials and sizes, ranging from 15 to 100 nm. A comparison with particle sizes determined by transmission electron microscopy confirms that our approach is model-independent, non-parametric, and of general validity that provides an accurate account of size polydispersity—independently on the shape of the size distribution and without any assumption required a priori.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Chimie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Chemistry
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 305658
- DOI 10.1007/s11051-017-3987-3
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/306167
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