Amorphous silica particles, such as nanoparticles (<100 nm diameter particles), are used in a wide variety of products, including pharmaceuticals, paints, cosmetics, and food. Nevertheless, the immunotoxicity of these particles and the relationship between silica particle size and pro-inflammatory activity are not fully understood. In this study, we addressed the relationship between the size o...

In this paper we show that Janus colloids, which are spherical particles with hybrid anchoring conditions, have preferable orientations in cholesteric media depending on the cholesteric wave vector. Simulations reveal that the tilt angle of a particle varies greatly with variation of the particle diameter to the cholesteric pitch ratio, which makes it possible to stabilize the appropriate parti...

There can be a large variation in the measured diameter of nanoparticles depending on which method is used. In this work, we have strived to accurately determine the mean particle diameter of 30-40 nm colloidal silica particles by using six different techniques. A quantitative agreement between the particle size distributions was obtained by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and electrospray-...

Electrophoresis of a cylindrical particle placed between two parallel walls is considered for arbitrary eccentricity. The electric field is perpendicular to the particle axis, and both the particle and walls are non-conducting. The electrical double layers adjacent to the solid surfaces are assumed to be thin with respect to the particle radius and to the particle–wall gap. A boundary-element m...

The role of -pinene in aerosol nucleation and growth was investigated using the CERN CLOUD chamber, a nano scanning mobility particle sizer (nanoSMPS) and several condensation particle counters (CPCs) with different diameter cut-offs. Different oxidation conditions for -pinene – OH⋅ vs. ozone oxidation – were considered to investigate their contributions to particle nucleation and growth. Resul...

relates stream length (L, mi) to drainage-basin area (A, mi). In CG-6 (“Solving Problems,” May 1999), Stokes' Law was used to find the travel time for a dead foraminifer to settle to the abyssal plain. This equation, which relates settling velocity (v) of a small, spherical particle to the densities of the settling particle and fluid (ρs and ρf, respectively), the viscosity of the fluid (μ), an...

Waterand alcohol-soluble AuPd nanoparticles have been investigated to determine the effect of the organic stabilizing group on the thermal conductance G of the particle/fluid interface. The thermal decays of tioproninstabilized 3-5-nm diameter AuPd alloy nanoparticles, thioalkylated ethylene glycol-stabilized 3-5-nm diameter AuPd nanoparticles, and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide-stabilized 22-n...

Several studies have shown the association between ambient particulate matter (PM) and adverse health effects and climate change, thus highlighting the need to limit the anthropogenic sources of PM. PM Exposure is commonly monitored as mass concentration of PM10 (particle aerodynamic diameter < 10μm) or PM2.5 (particle aerodynamic diameter < 2.5μm), although increasing toxicity with decreasing ...

he aim of this dissertation is to gain a better understanding of the agrangian dynamics of solid large spheres in a complex turbulent environment hereforea novel measurement technique to optically track the –dimensional dynamics – positionand absolute orientation – of large spheres advected by a complex ow is developed lthough the spheres diameter is comparable to the...

The concentration and size distribution were measured for particles ablated from tissue sections using an infrared optical parametric oscillator laser system. A scanning mobility particle sizer and light scattering particle sizer were used in parallel to realize a particle sizing range from 10 nm to 20 μm. Tissue sections from rat brain and lung ranging in thickness between 10 and 50 μm were mo...