Instrumental Techniques for the Characterization of Nanoparticles

  • Cintil Jose Chirayil
  • , Jiji Abraham
  • , Raghvendra Kumar Mishra
  • , Soney C. George
  • , Sabu Thomas

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Abstract

Advances in nanomaterials have opened a new era in various fields such as industrial, medical, commercial, and consumer products owing to their unique and novel physical and chemical properties. A wide variety of techniques can be used to analyze and characterize nanoparticles depending on the application of interest. Characterization refers to the study of material features such as composition, structure, and various properties such as physical, chemical, electrical, magnetic, etc. This chapter summarizes the techniques that are commonly used to investigate the size, shape, surface properties, composition, purity, and stability of nanomaterials, along with their benefits and drawbacks. Various characterization techniques such as optical (imaging), electron probe, photon probe, ion particle probe, and thermodynamic techniques are discussed briefly in this chapter.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThermal and Rheological Measurement Techniques for Nanomaterials Characterization
PublisherElsevier
Pages1-36
Number of pages36
Volume3
ISBN (Electronic)9780323461450
ISBN (Print)9780323461399
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 May 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Electron probe characterization techniques
  • Ion particle
  • Nanomaterials
  • Optical (imaging)
  • Photon probe characterization techniques
  • Probe characterization techniques
  • Thermodynamic characterization techniques

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering
  • General Materials Science

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