1. When Size & Shape Matter.
- Author
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Lich, Ben and Willen, Ulf
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SCANNING electron microscopes , *OPTICAL instruments , *PARTICLES (Nuclear physics) , *BIOPHARMACEUTICS , *MEDICAL research - Abstract
The article presents an analysis on the scanning electron microscope (SEM)-based systems used by researchers to examine the sub-micron pharmaceutical particles. It states that the SEM image-based particle analysis has provided more qualitative and quantitative capabilities for nanoscale particles compared to the optical microscopy. Moreover, it notes that the system captures critical shape information unavailable from scattering and diffraction techniques.
- Published
- 2009