A multistage, semi-automated procedure for analyzing the morphology of nanoparticles
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ArticleAuthors
Park, ChiwooHuang, Jianhua Z.
Huitink, David
Kundu, Subrata
Mallick, Bani K.
Liang, Hong
Ding, Yu
KAUST Grant Number
KUS-CI-016-04Date
2012-07Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/597328
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This article presents a multistage, semi-automated procedure that can expedite the morphology analysis of nanoparticles. Material scientists have long conjectured that the morphology of nanoparticles has a profound impact on the properties of the hosting material, but a bottleneck is the lack of a reliable and automated morphology analysis of the particles based on their image measurements. This article attempts to fill in this critical void. One particular challenge in nanomorphology analysis is how to analyze the overlapped nanoparticles, a problem not well addressed by the existing methods but effectively tackled by the method proposed in this article. This method entails multiple stages of operations, executed sequentially, and is considered semi-automated due to the inclusion of a semi-supervised clustering step. The proposed method is applied to several images of nanoparticles, producing the needed statistical characterization of their morphology. © 2012 "IIE".Citation
Park C, Huang JZ, Huitink D, Kundu S, Mallick BK, et al. (2012) A multistage, semi-automated procedure for analyzing the morphology of nanoparticles. IIE Transactions 44: 507–522. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0740817x.2011.587867.Sponsors
The authors would like to acknowledge the generous support from their sponsors. Ding and Park were partially supported by NSF grants CMMI-0348150 and CMMI-1000088; Huang was partially supported by NSF grants DMS-0606580, and DMS-0907170; Ding, Park, Mallick, and Liang were partially supported by Texas Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program grant 010366-0024-2007; Huang, Kundu, and Mallick were partially supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology award KUS-CI-016-04.Publisher
Informa UK LimitedJournal
IIE Transactionsae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/0740817x.2011.587867