TPDSci Literature survey 20070824

Literature survey: 24 August 2007

Interaction of light with matter
- Optical forces on particles of arbitrary shape and size (Bonessi D et al 2007)

Light scattering and absorption by particles: Fundamental problems and models
- Amplitude and phase of light scattered by aggregates of dielectric spheres: Comparison between theory (T-matrix and DDA) and microwave analog measurements (Sabouroux P et al 2007)
- Phase functions for hexagonal ice plates randomly oriented in a horizontal plane as calculated with ray-tracing (Borovoi AG et al 2007)
  See also Borovoi AG and Kustova 2006

Particle characterization
- Electical resistance measurement (Coulter method)
  - Solid-state nanopores for characterizing macromolecules (Dekker C 2007)
- Optical methods
  - Single particles
    - Automated measurements of filamentous cyanobacteria by digital image analysis (Almesjö L and Rolff 2007)
    - Detection and identification by simultaneous laser-induced fluorescence and scattering of single particles separated by capillary electrophoresis (Andreyev D and Arriaga 2007)
    - Optical characterization of cells in a microfluidic system (Applegate RW Jr. et al 2007)
      See also: Applegate RW Jr. et al 2006, 2004
    - Particle size and complex refractive index from angular scattering patterns retrieved with neural networks (Berdnik VV and Loiko 2007)
      See also: Berdnik VV et al 2006, Berdnik VV and Loiko 2006
    - Imaging/scattering spectroscopy system built around a commercial inverted microscope platform enables co-registered multi-modal particle characterization in brightfield, Fourier-filtered darkfield, and with fluorescence, monochromatic angle-resolved scattering, and white-light wavelength-resolved scattering (Cottrell WJ et al 2007)
    - Simultaneous determination of bubble diameter and relative refractive index using glare circles (Dehaeck S and van Beeck 2007)
    - Improved detection and identification of fluorescent particles in subfemtoliter volumes with hydrodynamic focusing (de Mello AJ and Edel 2007)
  - Dispersions
    - Concentration of inorganic marine particles using above water measurements of the degree of polarization at the Brewster angle (Chami M and McKee 2007)
      See also this entry
    - Sensitivity of the retrieval of the inherent optical properties of marine particles in coastal waters from remote reflectance to its directional variations and the polarization (Chami M and Platel 2007)
      See also this entry
    - Miniaturized dynamic light scattering instrumentation for use in microfluidic applications (Chastek TQ et al 2007)
    - Sizing spherical scatterers by using a Fourier transform of the phase spectra of the scattered light obtained with the frequency-swept-source OCT (Dennis T et al 2007)
      See also Dyer SD et al 2006
- Optoacoustic methods
  - Factors influencing optoacoustics characterization of dispersions of micron-size and nano-size particles (Egerev SV et al 2007)
- X-ray microanalysis and SEM
  - Mineralogy and shapes of inorganic particles in inland waters by individual particle X-ray microanalysis and scanning electron microscopy (Peng F and Effler 2007)
    See also Jambers W et al 1996 and other papers by this latter author

Particle size distribution (PSD)
- Comparison of sizing polydisperse dispersions by focused beam reflectance and laser diffraction (Ehrl L et al 2007)
- Size distribution of inorganic particles in inland waters (Peng F et al 2007)
- Size distribution of superparamagnetic particles determined by magnetic sedimentation (Berret JF et al 2007)

Particle trapping and manipulation
- Electrical methods
  - Experimental study of positive dielectrophoresis-based positioning and orientation of a nanorod (Edwards B et al 2007)
- Optical methods
  - Trapping of micron-sized objects at a liquid–air interface (Dasgupta Ret al. 2007)
  - Optical binding and three-dimensional trapping of charge stabilized colloidal particles near a charged surface (glass boundary), using a low numerical aperture objective (Ahlawat S et al 2007)
  - Optical manipulation of cells in a microfluidic system (Applegate RW Jr. et al 2007)
    See also: Applegate RW Jr. et al 2006, 2004 as well as Eriksson E et al 2007b, 2007a
  - Optical manipulation of transversely trapped microspheres in a microfluidic system for potential all-optical device control and sensor applications (Domachuk P et al 2007)
  - Optical forces on particles of arbitrary shape and size
  - Polarization effects in optical tweezers (Dutra RS et al 2007)

Turbid media: Radiative transfer (RT) and optical properties
- Scaling of light-scattering with density of scatterers (Campbell S et al 2007b)
- Diffuse and coherent backscattering of polarized light: Polarization ratios for a discrete random medium composed of nonspherical particles (Dlugach JM and Mishchenko 2007)

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Literature survey: 24 August 2007