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    Particle mixes containing both small and large gold nanoparticles can be difficult to resolve with dynamic light scattering alone, as the signal will be dominated by the larger particles. Centrifuging the mix with a Spinvette at high speeds preferentially sediments the larger 60nm particles. This reveals a bimodal size distribution in the supernatant, showing that the Spinvette separates heterogeneous particle mixes by size.

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    Particle mixes containing both small and large gold nanoparticles can be difficult to resolve with dynamic light scattering alone, as the signal will be dominated by the larger particles. Centrifuging the mix with a Spinvette at high speeds preferentially sediments the larger 60nm particles. This reveals a bimodal size distribution in the supernatant, showing that the Spinvette separates heterogeneous particle mixes by size.

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    Trevor Havard
    Particle mixes containing both small and large gold nanoparticles can be difficult to resolve with dynamic light scattering alone, as the signal will be dominated by the larger particles. Centrifuging the mix with a Spinvette at high speeds preferentially sediments the larger 60nm particles. This reveals a bimodal size distribution in the supernatant, showing that the Spinvette separates heterogeneous particle mixes by size.

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    Particle Mixes can often be very difficult to resolve by Dynamic Light Scattering as these
    heterogeneous mixes will provide data that is dominated by the large particles. The intensity
    of the particles are governed by the concentration times the mass of the particle. Therefore if
    cation equal concentrations of 10 nm and 60 nm gold particles are mixed together they will not
    necessarily give a bimodal distribution. The distribution could easily be a large heterogeneous
    distribution depending on the correlation function fitting routine.

    Size Distribution by Intensity

    6
    Intensity (%)

    0
    1 10 100
    Size (r.nm)

    Record 19: gold10 and 60 1

    Using the Spinvette we can quickly spin the mix for five minutes at 10,000 g at which point
    we can then sediment preferentially some of the 60nm. The resultant distribution delivers a
    bimodal mix. The final picture of the Spinvette after further spinning at 13,000 g visually
    shows that gold particles have been sedimented out.

    Size Distribution by Intensity

    10

    8
    Intensity (%)

    0
    1 10 100
    Size (r.nm)

    Record 55: 60nm10nmspinvette 1

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