Electrochemical impacts complement light scattering techniques for in situ nanoparticle sizing

Electrochemical Nanoparticle Sizing Via Nano-Impacts: How Large a Nanoparticle Can be Measured?

The field of nanoparticle (NP) sizing encompasses a wide array of techniques, with electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering (DLS) having become the established methods for NP quantification; however, these techniques are not always applicable. A new and rapidly developing method that addresses the limitations of these techniques is the electrochemical detection of NPs in solution. The '...

‘Nano-impacts’: An Electrochemical Technique for Nanoparticle Sizing in Optically Opaque Solutions

Typical laser-dependent methods such as nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) are not able to detect nanoparticles in an optically opaque medium due to scattering or absorption of light. Here, the electrochemical technique of 'nano-impacts' was used to detect nanoparticles in solution in the presence of high levels of alumina particulates causing a milky white ...

Characterization of Nanoparticle Aggregates with Light Scattering Techniques

Stabilizer-induced viscosity alteration biases nanoparticle sizing via dynamic light scattering.

The size dependent features of colloids at the nanometer scale have been issues of increasingly intensive research. In order to be able to correctly relate characteristics to certain size-populations, accurate and reliable particle sizing by dynamic light scattering (DLS) is a main prerequisite. So far, the complexity of the systems due to the presence of surfactants, proteins, and so forth in ...

Nanoparticle sizing with a resolution beyond the diffraction limit using UV light scattering spectroscopy

We investigated the detection of dielectric nanoparticles using static light scattering spectroscopy (LSS) in the UV range (from 250 to 390 nm). The light scattered by the polystyrene nanospheres in the backward direction were collected by means of an optical fiber probe and a charge-coupled device (CCD) spectrograph. The size distributions of the nanoparticles were obtained by a discrete inver...