Nanoparticle Transport (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nanoparticle Transport

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Oil-in-water droplets represented by shiny spheres stabilized by functional surfactants first pick up the nanoparticles, represented by small red balls, when traversing a nanoparticle-coated surface. Later in the same in-line process, when the particle-attached droplets meet the downstream empty surface with a high affinity for the nanoparticles, they drop the nanoparticles off onto the surface and move forward in the aqueous flow.

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UMass Amherst/Richard Bai

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