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Particle Size Analysis of Colloidal Systems by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

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Photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS), also known as quasielastic light scattering, offers many advantages over more classical techniques; such as electron microscopy, for the particle size analysis of colloidal systems. Particularly advantageous are the rapid analysis time (approximately 1 minute), minimal sample preparation, wide applicable size range (5–3000nm) and no prior requisite knowledge of sample concentraion.1 In addition, PCS has many biological and medical applications2 and may be used to study various colloidal properties such as the nature of particle surfaces,3 kinetics of colloid formation4 and antigen-antibody induced particle aggregation.5

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Douglas, S.J., Davis, S.S. (1986). Particle Size Analysis of Colloidal Systems by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy. In: Gregoriadis, G., Senior, J., Poste, G. (eds) Targeting of Drugs With Synthetic Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 113. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5185-6_19

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