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Sharma A, Nirmalkar N. Bulk Nanobubbles through Gas Supersaturation Originated by Hot and Cold Solvent Mixing. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:12729-12743. [PMID: 38845184 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c01358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2024]
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The nucleation mechanism of bulk nanobubbles remains unclear despite the considerable attention they have received in recent years. We propose two hypotheses: (i) The gas supersaturation in the bulk liquid is the primary factor for nanobubble nucleation, and (ii) the mixing of the same solvent at varying gas solubilities should produce nanobubbles, provided that the first hypothesis is correct. To test this hypothesis, we performed extensive experiments on nanobubble nucleation in both water and organic solvents. The temperature difference between hot and cold samples ranged from 10 to 80 °C in pure solvents such as water, methanol, ethanol, propanol, and butanol prepared and mixed in equal proportions. To the best of our knowledge, we report bulk nanobubble nucleation by mixing hot and cold solvents for the first time. The refractive index value calculations using Mie scattering theory confirmed the existence of nanobubbles. When surface tension dominates over surface charge, the critical work for nanobubble formation is ΔFc ∝ 1/ξ2, and when surface charge dominates over surface tension, the critical work is ΔFc ∝ ξ1/4. Our experimental results verify such dependency by measuring nanobubbles nucleated with varying degrees of gas supersaturation.
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- Aakriti Sharma
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab 140001, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab 140001, India
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Barker CR, King MD, Ward AD. Separation-dependent near-field effects in Mie scattering spectra of two optically trapped aerosol droplets. OPTICS EXPRESS 2024; 32:21042-21060. [PMID: 38859469 DOI: 10.1364/oe.520251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 03/07/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024]
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The backscattering of ultraviolet and visible light by a model organic (squalane) aerosol droplet (1.0
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Lee U, Park K, Chang S, Cho M, Lee J. Feasibility evaluation of near dissolved organic matter microfiltration (NDOM MF) for the efficient removal of microplastics in the water treatment process. CHEMOSPHERE 2024; 356:141882. [PMID: 38582163 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.141882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2024] [Revised: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 03/31/2024] [Indexed: 04/08/2024]
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Microfiltration (MF) using membranes with a mean pore size smaller than 0.45 μm has generally been used for particle removal from water, given that materials larger and smaller than 0.45 μm are regarded as particulates and dissolved organic matter (DOM), respectively. It is also the case for removing small-size microplastics (MPs). However, given their sizes (ca. 1 μm), there is room for further improvement of the productivity (i.e., water flux) in the pore size range of 0.45-1 μm on the condition that the removal rate is maintained. With this in mind, MF's water flux and removal rate were tested using seven different MF membranes, and the right pore, with the size of 0.8 μm, was found for MP removal, which is called near DOM (NDOM) MF. In the filtration test using polystyrene surrogate beads with an average particle diameter of 1.20 μm, NDOM MF exhibited a 1.7 to 13 times higher permeate flux than the conventional MF using 0.1, 0.2, and 0.45 μm membranes while maintaining a higher removal rate than 2 log. The excellent removal rate of the NDOM MF was attributable to the following three factors: (1) smaller mean pore size than the average particle diameter, (2) particle screening effect enhanced by the secondary layer formed by surface deposition, and (3) 3D mesh sublayer structure favorable for capturing penetrated particles. Furthermore, the outstanding filtration performance also appeared in a low-temperature (< 10°C) process, demonstrating that NDOM MF is feasible independently of temperature. Additionally, in constant flux filtration, NDOM MF demonstrated the long-term feasibility by lowering the transmembrane pressure and specific filtration energy by more than 2 times.
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- Uje Lee
- Department of Bionanotechnology and Bioconvergence Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bionanotechnology and Bioconvergence Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bionanotechnology and Bioconvergence Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Biotechnology, SELS Center, College of Environmental and Bioresource Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Iksan, 54596, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Bionanotechnology and Bioconvergence Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea; Department of Polymer-Nano Science and Technology, Department of JBNU-KIST Industry-Academia Convergence Research, Polymer Materials Fusion Research Center, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea.
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Lee U, Jang ES, Lee S, Kim HJ, Kang CW, Cho M, Lee J. Near dissolved organic matter microfiltration (NDOM MF) coupled with UVC LED disinfection to maximize the efficiency of water treatment for the removal of Giardia and Cryptosporidium. WATER RESEARCH 2023; 233:119731. [PMID: 36822110 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.119731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2022] [Revised: 02/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Microfiltration (MF) membranes with a mean pore size same as or smaller than 0.45 µm have been typically used to separate pathogenic protozoa in water since materials larger than 0.45 µm are considered particulates. However, 0.45 µm is too small to separate protozoa which are 4-6 µm (Cryptosporidium oocyst) or 8-15 µm (Giardia cyst) in size. In this study, we optimized the mean pore size of MF membranes to maximize the producibility and guarantee a high removal rate simultaneously and proposed the membrane filtration using an MF membrane with an optimum mean pore size larger than but close to dissolved organic matter (DOM), which is called near DOM MF (NDOM MF). According to the MF test using polystyrene surrogate beads with diameters of 3 and 8 µm, an MF membrane with a 0.8 µm mean pore size was the best in that it showed 52% to 146% higher water fluxes than a 0.45 µm MF membrane while maintaining the removal rate at 3-4 log. It was also the case for a low-temperature MF test, revealing the NDOM MF is highly effective regardless of temperature changes. Lastly, we tried to find the possibility of combining the NDOM MF with disinfection by an ultraviolet light emitting diode (UVC LED) to further guarantee the high quality of treated water while providing high process efficiency.
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- Uje Lee
- Department of Polymer-Nano Science and Technology, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Housing Environmental Design and Research Institute of Human Ecology, College of Human Ecology, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bionanotechnology and Bioconvergence Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Polymer-Nano Science and Technology, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Housing Environmental Design and Research Institute of Human Ecology, College of Human Ecology, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Biotechnology, Advanced institute of Environment and Bioscience, College of Environmental and Bioresource Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Iksan 54596, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Polymer-Nano Science and Technology, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea; Department of Bionanotechnology and Bioconvergence Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea; Polymer Materials Fusion Research Center, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea.
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Barker C, Lewns FK, Poologasundarampillai G, Ward AD. In Situ Sol-Gel Synthesis of Unique Silica Structures Using Airborne Assembly: Implications for In-Air Reactive Manufacturing. ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS 2022; 5:11699-11706. [PMID: 36062063 PMCID: PMC9425431 DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c02683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Optical trapping enables the real-time manipulation and observation of morphological evolution of individual particles during reaction chemistry. Here, optical trapping was used in combination with Raman spectroscopy to conduct airborne assembly and kinetic experiments. Micro-droplets of alkoxysilane were levitated in air prior to undergoing either acid- or base-catalyzed sol-gel reaction chemistry to form silica particles. The evolution of the reaction was monitored in real-time; Raman and Mie spectroscopies confirmed the in situ formation of silica particles from alkoxysilane droplets as the product of successive hydrolysis and condensation reactions, with faster reaction kinetics in acid catalysis. Hydrolysis and condensation were accompanied by a reduction in droplet volume and silica formation. Two airborne particles undergoing solidification could be assembled into unique 3D structures such as dumb-bell shapes by manipulating a controlled collision. Our results provide a pipeline combining spectroscopy with optical microscopy and nanoscale FIB-SEM imaging to enable chemical and structural insights, with the opportunity to apply this methodology to probe structure formation during reactive inkjet printing.
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- Connor
R. Barker
- Department
of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University
of London, Queens Building, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, U.K.
- STFC,
Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11
0FA, U.K.
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- School
of Dentistry, University of Birmingham, 5 Mill Pool Way, Birmingham, B5 7EG, U.K.
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- STFC,
Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11
0FA, U.K.
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Cotterell MI, Knight JW, Reid JP, Orr-Ewing AJ. Accurate Measurement of the Optical Properties of Single Aerosol Particles Using Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:2619-2631. [PMID: 35467353 PMCID: PMC9082593 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c01246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Revised: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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New approaches for the sensitive and accurate quantification of aerosol optical properties are needed to improve the current understanding of the unique physical chemistry of airborne particles and to explore their roles in fields as diverse as chemical manufacturing, healthcare, and atmospheric science. We have pioneered the use of cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS), with concurrent angularly resolved elastic light scattering measurements, to interrogate the optical properties of single aerosol particles levitated in optical and electrodynamic traps. This approach enables the robust quantification of optical properties such as extinction cross sections for individual particles of known size. Our measurements can now distinguish the scattering and absorption contributions to the overall light extinction, from which the real and imaginary components of the complex refractive indices can be retrieved and linked to chemical composition. In this Feature Article, we show that this innovative measurement platform enables accurate and precise optical measurements for spherical and nonspherical particles, whether nonabsorbing or absorbing at the CRDS probe wavelength. We discuss the current limitations of our approach and the key challenges in physical and atmospheric chemistry that can now be addressed by CRDS measurements for single aerosol particles levitated in controlled environments.
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- M. I. Cotterell
- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K.
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K.
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K.
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K.
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McGrory MR, Shepherd RH, King MD, Davidson N, Pope FD, Watson IM, Grainger RG, Jones AC, Ward AD. Mie scattering from optically levitated mixed sulfuric acid-silica core-shell aerosols: observation of core-shell morphology for atmospheric science. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:5813-5822. [PMID: 35226003 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04068e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Sulfuric acid is shown to form a core-shell particle on a micron-sized, optically-trapped spherical silica bead. The refractive indices of the silica and sulfuric acid, along with the shell thickness and bead radius were determined by reproducing Mie scattered optical white light as a function of wavelength in Mie spectroscopy. Micron-sized silica aerosols (silica beads were used as a proxy for atmospheric silica minerals) were levitated in a mist of sulfuric acid particles; continuous collection of Mie spectra throughout the collision of sulfuric acid aerosols with the optically trapped silica aerosol demonstrated that the resulting aerosol particle had a core-shell morphology. Contrastingly, the collision of aqueous sulfuric acid aerosols with optically trapped polystyrene aerosol resulted in a partially coated system. The light scattering from the optically levitated aerosols was successfully modelled to determine the diameter of the core aerosol (±0.003 μm), the shell thickness (±0.0003 μm) and the refractive index (±0.007). The experiment demonstrated that the presence of a thin film rapidly changed the light scattering of the original aerosol. When a 1.964 μm diameter silica aerosol was covered with a film of sulfuric acid 0.287 μm thick, the wavelength dependent Mie peak positions resembled sulfuric acid. Thus mineral aerosol advected into the stratosphere would likely be coated with sulfuric acid, with a core-shell morphology, and its light scattering properties would be effectively indistinguishable from a homogenous sulfuric acid aerosol if the film thickness was greater than a few 100 s of nm for UV-visible wavelengths.
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- Megan R McGrory
- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, OX11 0FA, UK. .,Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, OX11 0FA, UK. .,Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
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- School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Earth Science, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
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- National Centre for Earth Observation, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
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- Met Office, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK.,College of Engineering Maths and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4PY, UK
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, OX11 0FA, UK.
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Agarwal K, Trivedi M, Nirmalkar N. Does salting-out effect nucleate nanobubbles in water: Spontaneous nucleation? ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY 2022; 82:105860. [PMID: 34915251 PMCID: PMC8683758 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2021.105860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The solubility of gases in aqueous salt solution decreases with the salt concentration, often termed the "salting-out effect." The dissolution of salt in water is followed by dissociation of salt and further solvation of ions with water molecules. The solvation weakens the affinity of gaseous molecules, and thus it releases the excess dissolved gas. Now it is interesting to know that what happens to the excess gas released during salting-out? Since it is imperative to note that the transfer of the dissolved gas in the bulk liquid may often occur in the form of nanobubbles. In this work, we have answered this question by investigating the nano-entities nucleation during the salting-out effect. The solubility of gases in aqueous salt solution decreases with the salt concentration, and it is often termed as the "salting-out effects." The dissolution of salt in water undergoes dissociation of salt and further solvation of ions with water molecules. The solvation weakens the affinity of gaseous molecules, and thus it releases the excess dissolved gas. Now it is interesting to know that what happens to the excess gas released during salting-out? While it is also imperative to note that the gas transfer in the bulk liquid often occurs in the form of bubbles. With this hypothesis, we have experimentally investigated that whether the salting-out effect nucleates nanobubble or not. What is the strong scientific evidence to prove that they are nanobubbles? Does the salting-out parameter affect the number density? The answers to such questions are essential for the fundamental understanding of the origin and driving force for nanobubble generation. We have provided three distinct proofs for the nano-entities to be the nanobubbles, namely, (1) by freezing and thawing experiments, (2) by destroying the nanobubbles under ultrasound field, and (3) we also proposed a novel method for refractive index estimation of nanobubbles to differentiate them from nano drops and nanoparticles. The refractive index (RI) of nanobubbles was estimated to be 1.012 for mono- and di-valent salts and 1.305 for trivalent salt. The value of RI closer to 1 provides strong evidence of gas-filled nanobubbles. Both positive and negative charged nanobubbles nucleate during the salting-out effect depending upon the valency of salt. The nanobubbles during the salting-out effect are stable only for up to three days. This shorter stability could plausibly be due to reduced colloidal stability at a low surface charge.
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- Kalyani Agarwal
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar 140001, Punjab, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar 140001, Punjab, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar 140001, Punjab, India.
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Shari'ati Y, Vura-Weis J. Polymer thin films as universal substrates for extreme ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy of molecular transition metal complexes. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2021; 28:1850-1857. [PMID: 34738939 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577521010596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride thin films are explored as sample supports for extreme ultraviolet (XUV) spectroscopy of molecular transition metal complexes. Thin polymer films prepared by slip-coating are flat and smooth, and transmit much more XUV light than silicon nitride windows. Analytes can be directly cast onto the polymer surface or co-deposited within it. The M-edge XANES spectra (40-90 eV) of eight archetypal transition metal complexes (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) are presented to demonstrate the versatility of this method. The films are suitable for pump/probe transient absorption spectroscopy, as shown by the excited-state spectra of Fe(bpy)32+ in two different polymer supports.
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- Yusef Shari'ati
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Zhang X, Leymarie E, Boss E, Hu L. Deriving the angular response function for backscattering sensors. APPLIED OPTICS 2021; 60:8676-8687. [PMID: 34613093 DOI: 10.1364/ao.437735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We derived the angular response function (WN) for scattering sensors that automatically satisfies the normalization criterion and its corresponding weight (WT). WN's, derived for two commercial sensors, HydroScat-6 (HOBI Labs) and ECO-BB (Sea-Bird Inc.), agrees well with the Monte Carlo simulation and direct measurements. The backscattering measured for microbeads of known sizes agrees better with Mie calculation when the derived WN was applied. We deduced that the reduction of WT with increasing attenuation coefficient is related to path length attenuation and showed that this theoretically derived correction factor performs better than the default methods for the two commercial backscattering sensors. The analysis conducted in this study also leads to an estimate of uncertainty budget for the two sensors. The major uncertainty for ECO-BB is associated with its angular response function because of its wide field of view, whereas the main uncertainty for the HydrScat-6 is due to attenuation correction because of its relatively long path length.
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Berghoff K, Gross W, Eisentraut M, Kress H. Using blinking optical tweezers to study cell rheology during initial cell-particle contact. Biophys J 2021; 120:3527-3537. [PMID: 34181902 PMCID: PMC8391049 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.04.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Phagocytosis is an important part of innate immunity and describes the engulfment of bacteria and other extracellular objects on the micrometer scale. The protrusion of the cell membrane around the bacteria during this process is driven by a reorganization of the actin cortex. The process has been studied on the molecular level to great extent during the past decades. However, a deep, fundamental understanding of the mechanics of the process is still lacking, in particular because of a lack of techniques that give access to binding dynamics below the optical resolution limit and cellular viscoelasticity at the same time. In this work, we propose a technique to characterize the mechanical properties of cells in a highly localized manner and apply it to investigate the early stages of phagocytosis. The technique can simultaneously resolve the contact region between a cell and an external object (in our application, a phagocytic target) even below the optical resolution limit. We used immunoglobulin-G-coated microparticles with a size of 2 μm as a model system and attached the particles to the macrophages with holographic optical tweezers. By switching the trap on and off, we were able to measure the rheological properties of the cells in a time-resolved manner during the first few minutes after attachment. The measured viscoelastic cellular response is consistent with power law rheology. The contact radius between particle and cell increased on a timescale of ∼30 s and converged after a few minutes. Although the binding dynamics are not affected by cytochalasin D, we observed an increase of the cellular compliance and a significant fluidization of the cortex after addition of cytochalasin D treatment. Furthermore, we report upper boundaries for the length- and timescale, at which cortical actin has been hypothesized to depolymerize during early phagocytosis.
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- Konrad Berghoff
- Department of Physics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
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Chang YP, Devi Y, Chen CH. Micro-droplet Trapping and Manipulation: Understanding Aerosol Better for a Healthier Environment. Chem Asian J 2021; 16:1644-1660. [PMID: 33999498 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202100516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Understanding the physicochemical properties and heterogeneous processes of aerosols is key not only to elucidate the impacts of aerosols on the atmosphere and humans but also to exploit their further applications, especially for a healthier environment. Experiments that allow for spatially control of single aerosol particles and investigations on the fundamental properties and heterogeneous chemistry at the single-particle level have flourished during the last few decades, and significant breakthroughs in recent years promise better control and novel applications aimed at resolving key issues in aerosol science. Here we propose graphene oxide (GO) aerosols as prototype aerosols containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and GO can behave as two-dimensional surfactants which could modify the interfacial properties of aerosols. We describe the techniques of trapping single particles and furthermore the current status of the optical spectroscopy and chemistry of GO. The current applications of these single-particle trapping techniques are summarized and interesting future applications of GO aerosols are discussed.
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- Yuan-Pin Chang
- Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, No. 70 Lien-hai Rd., Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan.,Aerosol Science Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University, No. 70 Lien-hai Rd., Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, No. 70 Lien-hai Rd., Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, No. 70 Lien-hai Rd., Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan
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Kalume A, Wang C, Pan YL. Optical-Trapping Laser Techniques for Characterizing Airborne Aerosol Particles and Its Application in Chemical Aerosol Study. MICROMACHINES 2021; 12:466. [PMID: 33924223 PMCID: PMC8074619 DOI: 10.3390/mi12040466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2021] [Revised: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We present a broad assessment on the studies of optically-trapped single airborne aerosol particles, particularly chemical aerosol particles, using laser technologies. To date, extensive works have been conducted on ensembles of aerosols as well as on their analogous bulk samples, and a decent general description of airborne particles has been drawn and accepted. However, substantial discrepancies between observed and expected aerosols behavior have been reported. To fill this gap, single-particle investigation has proved to be a unique intersection leading to a clear representation of microproperties and size-dependent comportment affecting the overall aerosol behavior, under various environmental conditions. In order to achieve this objective, optical-trapping technologies allow holding and manipulating a single aerosol particle, while offering significant advantages such as contactless handling, free from sample collection and preparation, prevention of contamination, versatility to any type of aerosol, and flexibility to accommodation of various analytical systems. We review spectroscopic methods that are based on the light-particle interaction, including elastic light scattering, light absorption (cavity ring-down and photoacoustic spectroscopies), inelastic light scattering and emission (Raman, laser-induced breakdown, and laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopies), and digital holography. Laser technologies offer several benefits such as high speed, high selectivity, high accuracy, and the ability to perform in real-time, in situ. This review, in particular, discusses each method, highlights the advantages and limitations, early breakthroughs, and recent progresses that have contributed to a better understanding of single particles and particle ensembles in general.
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- Aimable Kalume
- CCDC-US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD 20783, USA;
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39759, USA;
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- CCDC-US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD 20783, USA;
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McGrory MR, King MD, Ward AD. Using Mie Scattering to Determine the Wavelength-Dependent Refractive Index of Polystyrene Beads with Changing Temperature. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:9617-9625. [PMID: 33164512 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c06121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Polystyrene beads are often used as test particles in aerosol science. Here, a contact-less technique is reported for determining the refractive index of a solid aerosol particle as a function of wavelength and temperature (20-234 °C) simultaneously. Polystyrene beads with a diameter of 2 μm were optically trapped in air in the central orifice of a ceramic heating element, and Mie spectroscopy was used to determine the radius and refractive index (to precisions of 0.8 nm and 0.0014) of eight beads as a function of heating and cooling. Refractive index, n, as a function of wavelength, λ (0.480-0.650 μm), and temperature, T, in centigrade, was found to be n = 1.5753 - (1.7336 × 10-4)T + (9.733 × 10-3)λ-2 in the temperature range 20 < T < 100 °C and n = 1.5877 - (2.9739 × 10-4)T + (9.733 × 10-3)λ-2 in the temperature range 100 < T < 234 °C. The technique represents a step change in measuring the refractive index of materials across an extended range of temperature and wavelength in an absolute manner and with high precision.
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- Megan R McGrory
- STFC, Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0FA, U.K.,Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, U.K
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, U.K
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- STFC, Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0FA, U.K
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Martin-Fernandez ML. A brief history of the octopus imaging facility to celebrate its 10th anniversary. J Microsc 2020; 281:3-15. [PMID: 33111321 DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Revised: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Octopus (Optics Clustered to OutPut Unique Solutions) celebrated in June 2020 its 10th birthday. Based at Harwell, near Oxford, Octopus is an open access, peer reviewed, national imaging facility that offers successful U.K. applicants supported access to single molecule imaging, confocal microscopy, several flavours of superresolution imaging, light sheet microscopy, optical trapping and cryoscanning electron microscopy. Managed by a multidisciplinary team, Octopus has so far assisted >100 groups of U.K. and international researchers. Cross-fertilisation across fields proved to be a strong propeller of success underpinned by combining access to top-end instrumentation with a strong programme of imaging hardware and software developments. How Octopus was born, and highlights of the multidisciplinary output produced during its 10-year journey are reviewed below, with the aim of celebrating a myriad of collaborations with the U.K. scientific community, and reflecting on their scientific and societal impact.
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- M L Martin-Fernandez
- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, Didcot, Oxford, U.K
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Tertel T, Görgens A, Giebel B. Analysis of individual extracellular vesicles by imaging flow cytometry. Methods Enzymol 2020; 645:55-78. [PMID: 33565978 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2020.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Virtually all cells release extracellular vesicles (EVs) into their environment, such as exosomes and microvesicles. EVs can mediate intercellular communication processes in a targeted manner. Representing their cell of origin, EVs contain cell type specific signatures, qualifying them as a novel class of biomarkers. Furthermore, according to their tropism to certain target cells, EVs provide promising aspects to be used as drug delivery vehicles. Depending on their origin, certain EVs contain the potential to modulate physiological and pathophysiological processes. Although the EV field provides many interesting aspects, the methodology in EV research is limited. For now, EVs are mainly analyzed by nanoparticle tracking analysis and bulk molecular analysis, regularly Western Blot. These technologies cannot dissect the heterogeneity of EVs observed by electron microscopy (EM). Although EM technologies help to demonstrate the heterogeneity within EV samples, EM technologies are not appropriate to perform more complex and quantitative EV analyses. Flow cytometry (FCM) is a traditional method for dissecting the heterogeneity of given cell populations in a quantitative and complex manner. However, classical FCM regularly fails to detect objects in the size range of small EVs (sEVs) that typically is in the range between 70 and 150nm. Recently, we and others demonstrated the potential of imaging FCM for the analyses of small EVs at the single vesicle level. Here, at the example of sEVs harvested from supernatants of human mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs), we share a protocol for studying the expression of the tetraspanins CD9, CD63 and CD81 on single EVs.
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- Tobias Tertel
- Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
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- Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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Ando K, Uchimoto Y, Nakajima T. Single-shot laser-scattering technique refined for the real-time monitoring and sizing of individual nanoparticles and nanobubbles in bulk water. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:3321-3324. [PMID: 32538973 DOI: 10.1364/ol.394934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Understanding the growth dynamics and transport mechanism of nanoparticles/nanobubbles in a solution is an important issue in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Using a standard CMOS camera and a nanosecond laser at 532 nm, we demonstrate the far-field detection of polystyrene nanoparticles in bulk water. Conveniently, the sizes of individual nanoparticles are found to be reliably estimated from the brightness of scattering signals under the single laser pulses. Since the scattering efficiency of polystyrene nanoparticles is similar to that of nanobubbles, our results imply that the detection of nanobubbles in bulk solution is also possible.
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Naglič P, Zelinskyi Y, Likar B, Bürmen M. Determination of refractive index, size, and solid content of monodisperse polystyrene microsphere suspensions for the characterization of optical phantoms. BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 11:1901-1918. [PMID: 32341856 PMCID: PMC7173914 DOI: 10.1364/boe.387619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Revised: 02/20/2020] [Accepted: 02/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Monodisperse polystyrene microspheres are often utilized in optical phantoms since optical properties such as the scattering coefficient and the scattering phase function can be calculated using the Mie theory. However, the calculated values depend on the inherent physical parameters of the microspheres which include the size, refractive index, and solid content. These parameters are often provided only approximately or can be affected by long shelf times. We propose a simple method to obtain the values of these parameters by measuring the collimated transmission of polystyrene microsphere suspensions from which the wavelength-dependent scattering coefficient can be calculated using the Beer-Lambert law. Since a wavelength-dependent scattering coefficient of a single suspension is insufficient to uniquely derive the size, refractive index and solid content by the Mie theory, the crucial and novel step involves suspending the polystyrene microspheres in aqueous sucrose solutions with different sucrose concentrations that modulates the refractive index of the medium and yields several wavelength-dependent scattering coefficients. With the proposed method, we are able to obtain the refractive index within 0.2% in the wavelength range from 500 to 800 nm, the microsphere size to approximately 15 nm and solid content within 2% of their respective reference values.
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- Peter Naglič
- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Laboratory of Imaging Technologies, Tržaška cesta 25,
SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Laboratory of Imaging Technologies, Tržaška cesta 25,
SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Laboratory of Imaging Technologies, Tržaška cesta 25,
SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Laboratory of Imaging Technologies, Tržaška cesta 25,
SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Vennes B, Preston TC. Calculating and fitting morphology-dependent resonances of a spherical particle with a concentric spherical shell. JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. A, OPTICS, IMAGE SCIENCE, AND VISION 2019; 36:2089-2103. [PMID: 31873383 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.36.002089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Determining the size and composition of core-shell particles using morphology-dependent resonances (MDRs) is a computationally intensive problem due to the large parameter space that needs to be searched during the fitting process. Very often, it is not even practical to consider a reasonable range of physical parameters due to time constraints, leading to restrictive assumptions concerning the system being studied. The lengthy computational time is so limiting that there has, to date, to the best of our knowledge, been no comprehensive study of fitting measured MDRs for core-shell particles. In this work, we address the issue of fitting speed by developing an algorithm that (i) reduces the multi-dimensional grid search to a one-dimensional search using a least squares method and (ii) implements a new method for calculating MDRs that is much faster than previous methods. With the program presented here, we analyze the best-fits for core-shell MDRs across a large range of physically relevant scenarios using noise levels typical for conventional spectroscopic experiments. For many cases, it has been found that excellent fits can be quickly determined. However, there are also some surprising situations where accurate best-fits are not possible (e.g., if only one mode order is present in the measured MDR set).
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Zilli A, Langbein W, Borri P. Quantitative Measurement of the Optical Cross Sections of Single Nano-objects by Correlative Transmission and Scattering Microspectroscopy. ACS PHOTONICS 2019; 6:2149-2160. [PMID: 32064304 PMCID: PMC7011706 DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2019] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The scattering and absorption of light by nano-objects is a key physical property exploited in many applications, including biosensing and photovoltaics. Yet, its quantification at the single object level is challenging and often requires expensive and complicated techniques. We report a method based on a commercial transmission microscope to measure the optical scattering and absorption cross sections of individual nano-objects. The method applies to microspectroscopy and wide-field image analysis, offering fine spectral information and high throughput sample characterization. Accurate cross-section determination requires detailed modeling of the measurement, which we develop, accounting for the geometry of the illumination and detection as well as for the presence of a sample substrate. We demonstrate the method on three model systems (gold spheres, gold rods, and polystyrene spheres), which include metallic and dielectric particles, spherical and elongated, placed in a homogeneous medium or on a dielectric substrate. Furthermore, by comparing the measured cross sections with numerical simulations, we are able to determine structural parameters of the studied system, such as the particle diameter and aspect ratio. Our method therefore holds the potential to complement electron microscopy as a simpler and cost-effective tool for structural characterization of single nano-objects.
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- Attilio Zilli
- Cardiff
University, School of Biosciences, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, U.K.
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- Cardiff
University, School of Physics and Astronomy, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K.
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- Cardiff
University, School of Biosciences, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX, U.K.
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Niskanen I, Forsberg V, Zakrisson D, Reza S, Hummelgård M, Andres B, Fedorov I, Suopajärvi T, Liimatainen H, Thungström G. Determination of nanoparticle size using Rayleigh approximation and Mie theory. Chem Eng Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2019.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Mage PL, Csordas AT, Brown T, Klinger D, Eisenstein M, Mitragotri S, Hawker C, Soh HT. Shape-based separation of synthetic microparticles. NATURE MATERIALS 2019; 18:82-89. [PMID: 30542094 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-018-0244-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The functional properties of colloidal materials can be tailored by tuning the shape of their constituent particles. Unfortunately, a reliable, general methodology for purifying colloidal materials solely based on shape is still lacking. Here we exploit the single-particle analysis and sorting capabilities of the fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) instrument, a commonly used tool in biomedical research, and demonstrate the ability to separate mixtures of synthetic microparticles based solely on their shape with high purity. We achieve this by simultaneously obtaining four independent optical scattering signals from the FACS instrument to create shape-specific 'scattering signatures' that can be used for particle classification and sorting. We demonstrate that these four-dimensional signatures can overcome the confounding effects of particle orientation on shape-based characterization. Using this strategy, robust discrimination of particles differing only slightly in shape and an efficient selection of desired shapes from mixtures comprising particles of diverse sizes and materials is demonstrated.
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- Peter L Mage
- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA
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- Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Interdepartmental Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Institut für Pharmazie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
- Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
- Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Fluorescent optical probes have rapidly transformed our understanding of complex biological systems by providing specific information on biological targets in the natural living state. However, their utility is often limited by insufficient brightness, photostability, and multiplexing capacity. Here, we report a conceptually new optical probe, termed ‘reflectophore’, which is based on the spectral interference from a dielectric microsphere. Reflectophores are orders-of-magnitudes brighter than conventional fluorophores and are free from photobleaching, enabling practically unlimited readout at high fidelity. They also offer high-degree multiplexing, encoded in their optical size, which can be readily decoded through interferometric detection with nanoscale accuracy, even in turbid biological media. Furthermore, we showcase their biological applications in cellular barcoding and microenvironmental sensing of a target protein and local electric field. Tagging and tracking cells with multiplexed labels can help study complex cellular behaviors in living systems. Here, Jo et al. propose and demonstrate the use of Fabry-Perot-like resonances in dielectric microspheres as such a label and call these reflectophores.
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Lew LJN, Ting MV, Preston TC. Determining the size and refractive index of homogeneous spherical aerosol particles using Mie resonance spectroscopy. APPLIED OPTICS 2018; 57:4601-4609. [PMID: 29877369 DOI: 10.1364/ao.57.004601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Methods for determining the size and refractive index of single, homogeneous, micrometer-sized aerosol particles using Mie resonance spectroscopy are studied using measurements from optically trapped particles and light-scattering calculations based on Mie theory. We consider both single-particle broadband light scattering and cavity-enhanced Raman scattering (CERS) and demonstrate that, when resonances observed in either type of spectroscopy are fitted using Mie theory, the accuracy of the best fits are similar. However, broadband measurements can yield more resonances than CERS, thus reducing the uncertainty in the retrieved parameters of best fit and increasing the range of particles that can be characterized. Resonance fitting methods are also compared to methods that fit the entire Mie scattering spectrum. Through calculations, it is shown that measured scattering spectra are sensitive to small changes in how light is collected, while Mie resonance positions are much less sensitive. This means that additional parameters are required to accurately fit entire light-scattering spectra using Mie theory, but these parameters are not needed to accurately determine Mie resonance positions.
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Esat K, David G, Poulkas T, Shein M, Signorell R. Phase transition dynamics of single optically trapped aqueous potassium carbonate particles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:11598-11607. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00599k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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This study reveals that complex multiple processes occur during efflorescence and deliquescence in unsupported, submicron sized particles.
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- Kıvanç Esat
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
- ETH Zürich
- Zürich
- Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
- ETH Zürich
- Zürich
- Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
- ETH Zürich
- Zürich
- Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
- ETH Zürich
- Zürich
- Switzerland
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Vandewiele S, Strubbe F, Schreuer C, Neyts K, Beunis F. Low coherence digital holography microscopy based on the Lorenz-Mie scattering model. OPTICS EXPRESS 2017; 25:25853-25866. [PMID: 29041248 DOI: 10.1364/oe.25.025853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/30/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We demonstrate the use of low spatial and temporal coherence holography microscopy, based on the Lorenz-Mie model, using the standard tungsten-halogen lamp present in an inverted microscope. An optical model is put forward to incorporate the effect of spectral width and different incidence angles of the incident light determined by the aperture at the back focal plane of the condenser lens. The model is validated for 899 nm diameter polystyrene microspheres in glycerol, giving a resolution of 0.4% for the index of refraction and 2.2% for the diameter of the particles.
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Yasuda M, Takei K, Arie T, Akita S. Direct measurement of optical trapping force gradient on polystyrene microspheres using a carbon nanotube mechanical resonator. Sci Rep 2017; 7:2825. [PMID: 28588196 PMCID: PMC5460215 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03068-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Optical tweezers based on optical radiation pressure are widely used to manipulate nanoscale to microscale particles. This study demonstrates direct measurement of the optical force gradient distribution acting on a polystyrene (PS) microsphere using a carbon nanotube (CNT) mechanical resonator, where a PS microsphere with 3 μm diameter is welded at the CNT tip using laser heating. With the CNT mechanical resonator with PS microsphere, we measured the distribution of optical force gradient with resolution near the thermal noise limit of 0.02 pN/μm in vacuum, in which condition enables us to high accuracy measurement using the CNT mechanical resonator because of reduced mechanical damping from surrounding fluid. The obtained force gradient and the force gradient distribution agree well with theoretical values calculated using Lorenz–Mie theory.
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- Masaaki Yasuda
- Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, 599-8531, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Electronics, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, 599-8531, Japan.
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Espinosa WR, Remer LA, Dubovik O, Ziemba L, Beyersdorf A, Orozco D, Schuster G, Lapyonok T, Fuertes D, Martins JV. Retrievals of aerosol optical and microphysical properties from Imaging Polar Nephelometer scattering measurements. ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES 2017; 10:811-824. [PMID: 33510817 PMCID: PMC7839294 DOI: 10.5194/amt-10-811-2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A method for the retrieval of aerosol optical and microphysical properties from in situ light-scattering measurements is presented and the results are compared with existing measurement techniques. The Generalized Retrieval of Aerosol and Surface Properties (GRASP) is applied to airborne and laboratory measurements made by a novel polar nephelometer. This instrument, the Polarized Imaging Nephelometer (PI-Neph), is capable of making high-accuracy field measurements of phase function and degree of linear polarization, at three visible wavelengths, over a wide angular range of 3 to 177°. The resulting retrieval produces particle size distributions (PSDs) that agree, within experimental error, with measurements made by commercial optical particle counters (OPCs). Additionally, the retrieved real part of the refractive index is generally found to be within the predicted error of 0.02 from the expected values for three species of humidified salt particles, with a refractive index that is well established. The airborne measurements used in this work were made aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) field campaign, and the inversion of this data represents the first aerosol retrievals of airborne polar nephelometer data. The results provide confidence in the real refractive index product, as well as in the retrieval's ability to accurately determine PSD, without assumptions about refractive index that are required by the majority of OPCs.
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- W. Reed Espinosa
- Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
- Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 5523 Research Park DR, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
- Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 5523 Research Park DR, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
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- Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, UMR8518, CNRS, Université de Lille 1, 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
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- Langley Research Center Science Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, Virginia, USA
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- Langley Research Center Science Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, Virginia, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University San Bernardino, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
- Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 5523 Research Park DR, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
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- Langley Research Center Science Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, Virginia, USA
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- Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, UMR8518, CNRS, Université de Lille 1, 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
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- GRASP-SAS, Bat-P5, Université de Lille 1, 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
- Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 5523 Research Park DR, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA
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David G, Esat K, Ritsch I, Signorell R. Ultraviolet broadband light scattering for optically-trapped submicron-sized aerosol particles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:5477-85. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp06940h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A broadband light scattering experiment for the characterization of size and refractive index of single submicron-to-micron sized aerosol particles is presented.
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- Grégory David
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
- ETH Zurich
- Zurich
- Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
- ETH Zurich
- Zurich
- Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
- ETH Zurich
- Zurich
- Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
- ETH Zurich
- Zurich
- Switzerland
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Fitzgerald C, Hosny NA, Tong H, Seville PC, Gallimore PJ, Davidson NM, Athanasiadis A, Botchway SW, Ward AD, Kalberer M, Kuimova MK, Pope FD. Fluorescence lifetime imaging of optically levitated aerosol: a technique to quantitatively map the viscosity of suspended aerosol particles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:21710-9. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp03674k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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A technique to measure the viscosity of stably levitated single micron-sized aerosol particles.
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- C. Fitzgerald
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Cambridge
- Cambridge
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Imperial College London
- London
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Cambridge
- Cambridge
- UK
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- University of Central Lancashire
- Preston
- UK
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- School of Geography
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- University of Birmingham
- Birmingham
- UK
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- The Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Research Complex at Harwell
- Oxfordshire
- UK
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- The Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Research Complex at Harwell
- Oxfordshire
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Cambridge
- Cambridge
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Imperial College London
- London
- UK
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- School of Geography
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- University of Birmingham
- Birmingham
- UK
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Hunt OR, Ward AD, King MD. Heterogeneous oxidation of nitrite anion by gas-phase ozone in an aqueous droplet levitated by laser tweezers (optical trap): is there any evidence for enhanced surface reaction? Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:2734-41. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp05062b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Optical trapping of micron-sized droplet morphology and heterogeneous kinetics with gas-phase ozone with nitrite in a wall-less apparatus.
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- Oliver R. Hunt
- Department of Earth Sciences
- Royal Holloway University of London
- Egham
- UK
- Central Laser Facility
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- Central Laser Facility
- Research Complex at Harwell
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Harwell Innovation Campus
- Didcot
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- Department of Earth Sciences
- Royal Holloway University of London
- Egham
- UK
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Jones SH, King MD, Ward AD. Atmospherically relevant core–shell aerosol studied using optical trapping and Mie scattering. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 51:4914-7. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cc09835h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Solid core–liquid shell aerosols have been trapped in a counter-propagating optical trap confirming potential core–shell morphology in the atmosphere.
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- S. H. Jones
- Central Laser Facility
- Research Complex at Harwell
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Didcot
- UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences
- Royal Holloway University of London
- Egham
- UK
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- Central Laser Facility
- Research Complex at Harwell
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Didcot
- UK
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