Open AccessNanoparticle tracking analysis
Author(s) -
Hannah Peneder,
Elke Punz,
Isabella Anna Joubert,
Mark Geppert,
Martin Himly
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
open schools journal for open science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2623-3606
DOI - 10.12681/osj.22598
Subject(s) - nanoparticle , nanoparticle tracking analysis , materials science , suspension (topology) , microscopy , nanoscopic scale , tracking (education) , microscope , nanotechnology , range (aeronautics) , optics , chemistry , physics , composite material , mathematics , psychology , microrna , biochemistry , pedagogy , homotopy , microvesicles , pure mathematics , gene
Due to their extremely small size, nanoparticles cannot be analyses by conventional approaches such as light microscopy. To visualise particles in the nanoscale range, a combination of an ultra-microscope and a laser illumination unit has to be applied. This combinatory technique is called Nanoparticle Tracking Anlysis (NTA) and can be used of thr nalysis of particles in a size range of approximately 10 nm up to 1 μm in liquid suspension.