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Automated video-microscopic imaging and data acquisition system for colloid deposition measurements

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OSTI ID:1175188

A video microscopic visualization system and image processing and data extraction and processing method for in situ detailed quantification of the deposition of sub-micrometer particles onto an arbitrary surface and determination of their concentration across the bulk suspension. The extracted data includes (a) surface concentration and flux of deposited, attached and detached colloids, (b) surface concentration and flux of arriving and departing colloids, (c) distribution of colloids in the bulk suspension in the direction perpendicular to the deposition surface, and (d) spatial and temporal distributions of deposited colloids.

Research Organization:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
Patent Number(s):
6,836,559
Application Number:
09/802,489
OSTI ID:
1175188
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (3)

Colloidal Particles at Water-Glass Interface: Deposition Kinetics and Surface Heterogeneity journal October 1998
Colloidal Particles at Water-Glass Interface: Analyzing Videomicroscopic Data journal October 1998
Colloidal Particles at Solid–Liquid Interfaces: Mechanisms of Desorption Kinetics journal October 1998

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