“…In this technique particles or cells of different densities/volume in a suspension will settle at different rates, with the larger and denser particles settling out of suspension more rapidly based on their sedimentation velocity, ; where m is mass, D is diffusion coefficient, g is the gravitation constant, k B is the Boltzmann constant, and T is the temperature (Berg, 1993). There are several different centrifugation techniques of relevance to cell sorting, including differential centrifugation, rate-zonal centrifugation, and equilibrium centrifugation, briefly described below (Axelsson, 2002). …”