Mater.Phys.Mech.(MPM)
No 2, Vol. 13, 2012, pages 162-174

OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF 3D DISPERSE SYSTEMS
WITH NANO- AND MICRO- PARTICLES:
POLYMODALITY OF SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS

Alexandra G. Bezrukova, Olga L. Vlasova

Abstract

Natural (including biomedical) 3D disperse systems (DS) with nano- and/or microparticles are inherently polycomponent polymodal polydisperse systems. Characterization of such systems by different compatible non-destructive optical methods (refractometry, absorbance, fluorescence, light scattering: integral and differential, static and dynamic, unpolarized and polarized) is desirable because of feasibility to organize the on-line testing of their state. At this road it is necessary to take into account peculiarities of inverse optical problem solution for such complex systems (so called "three ill": "ill-defined" 3D DS, "illposed" problems, "ill-conditioned" systems of equations). At the information-statistical approach to the optical characterization and control of 3D DS it is possible to go round these peculiarities and to qualify the 3D DS state changes.

Keywords: biomedical and mineral particles; 3D disperse systems; inverse problem; light scattering; mixtures of nano- and micro- particles; on-line control; optical methods; polymodal size distributions

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