The Waterborne Symposium

Abstract
Advanced Characterization of Nanoparticles using High-Resolution High-Sensitivity Nano-Analytics and Machine Learning

Nanoparticles research plays a very important role in numerous industrial applications such as pharmaceuticals, biomedical applications, coatings, inks, pigments, energy materials, and filtration.  To engineer nanoparticles with unique properties, improve synthesis methods and innovate new products, the chemistry, size, and shape of individual nanoparticles must be characterized.
Here we present how high-resolution, high-sensitivity, nano-analytics techniques such as correlative Helium Ion Microscopy and Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy chemical analysis can be used in nanoparticles research.  This talk will overview applications on catalysts, coatings, and cosmetics.
This presentation will also include an example on how advanced segmentation using machine learning was successfully used to identify individual nanoparticles in agglomerates to determine their particle area distribution.