Routine, ensemble characterisation of electrophoretic mobility in high and saturated ionic dispersions.

ABSTRACT: With the industrialisation of nanoparticle manufacture, the pervasive incursion of nanoparticles into the environment, the need to characterise nano-scale pharmaceuticals and living systems in replicated in vivo conditions, the continuing development of new theories to describe the electro-kinetic behaviour of nano-particles in representative ionic strengths and numerous other applications, there is an urgent requirement to provide simple and effective experimental tools to validate these models and explore new systems. Micro-electrophoresis implemented with a diffusion barrier, which isolates the dispersed phase from the electrode surface, is demonstrated as enabling such measurements for the first time, preventing the catastrophic outgassing, precipitation and sample degradation observed

SUBMITTER: Austin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7070055 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature