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Particle Separation Techniques: Fundamentals, Instrumentation, and Selected Applications presents the latest research in the field of particle separation methods. This edited book authored by subject specialists is logically organized in sections, grouping the separation techniques according to their preparative or analytical purposes and the particle type. Along with the traditional and classical separation methods suitable for micronic particles, an update survey of techniques appropriate for nanoparticle characterization is presented. This book fills the gap in the literature of particle suspension analysis of a synthetic but comprehensive manual, helping the reader to identify and apply selected techniques.
It provides an overview of the techniques available to a reader who is not an expert on particle separation yet about to enter the field, design an experiment, or buy an instrument for his/her new lab.
List of contents
Part 1: Introduction
1. Introduction - The new, latest improvements in the particle separation techniques
2. What is a particle, classification and properties
3. Particle dispersions in liquid media
4. Particle characterization: parameters and selected methods
Part 2: Preparative separations
5. Membrane-based filtration technology
6. Sedimentation
7. Electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis
8. Magnetic Separations (MS)
9. Historical overview of flow cytometry and frontier applications
10. Affinity Chromatography
11. Affinity separation on fibers and surfaces
Part 3: Analytical separations
12. Production, role and use of reference materials for nanoparticle characterization
13. Size exclusion chormatography (SEC)
14. Passive and active microfluidic separation methods
15. Inertial microfluidic techniques
16. Analytical ultracentrifugation
17. Centrifugal liquid sedimentation methods
18. Theoretical principles of field-flow fractionation and SPLITT
19. Field flow fractionation (FFF): practical and experimental aspects
20. Capillar electromigration techniques
Part 4: Present Challenges
21. Regulatory and technical challenges in the size characterization of nanoparticulate systems
