An Experimental Study of the Kinetics of Particle Deposition in a Wall-Jet Cell Using Total Internal Reflection Microscopy

Online Biofilm Monitoring

“…A third method belonging to this group of techniques is the Total Internal Reflection Microscopy (Go¨ransson & Tra¨ga˚rdh 2000), in which the evanescent wave merely serves the purpose to illuminate the biofilm for microscopic observation. Thus the limitations mentioned in the section on microscopic methods also apply to this one.…”

Streaming potential studies of colloid, polyelectrolyte and protein deposition

“…Owing to its significance, particle deposition has been extensively studied both theoretically [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] and experimentally, using mostly direct methods such as optical microscopy [24][25][26][27][28] AFM [4,5,[7][8][9], reflectometry [10,[29][30][31][32][33][34], and other methods [35][36][37][38][39]. Because of high precision of measurements, these results, obtained mostly for monodisperse latex or silica particles, gold particles or dendrimers, can be used as convenient reference data for protein deposition studies, which are also considerably more complicated [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50].…”

Deposition of Particles in the Impinging-Jet Cell for the High Coverage Regime

“…For larger colloid particles this is usually done by optical microscopy (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) enabling one to measure local concentration of adsorbed particles with the spatial resolution of a micrometer. For particle size below 0.2 µm, indirect methods of particle detection are to be applied such as the internal reflection microscopy (17,18), the evanescent wave spectroscopy (19), or reflectometry (20)(21)(22), especially for protein adsorption studies. In these measurements the optical signal is integrated over interface area reaching square millimeters.…”