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Quantifying nanoparticle dispersion using the area disorder of Delaunay triangulation

Quantifying nanoparticle dispersion using the area disorder of Delaunay triangulation
Quantifying nanoparticle dispersion using the area disorder of Delaunay triangulation
Characterizing the quality of dispersion of nanocomposites presents a challenging statistical problem for which no direct method has been fully adopted. A high precision, statistically well-grounded measure is required which is suitable for dealing with a single small non-homogeneous particle pattern obtained from the material. Our approach uses the Delaunay network of particles to measure the area disorder ADDel, which can be further used to categorize a material sample into well or poorly dispersed. ADDel-analysis is applied to several micrographs of nanoparticle-modified materials and found to classify the type of dispersion reliably. Selected spatial point processes are employed to estimate expected imprecision in observed measurements.
composite material, hard-core model, image analysis, randomness, regularity, small samples, voronoi
0035-9254
253-275
Bray, David
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Gilmour, Steven G.
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Guild, Felicity J.
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Taylor, Ambrose C.
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Bray, David
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Gilmour, Steven G.
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Guild, Felicity J.
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Taylor, Ambrose C.
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Bray, David, Gilmour, Steven G., Guild, Felicity J. and Taylor, Ambrose C. (2012) Quantifying nanoparticle dispersion using the area disorder of Delaunay triangulation. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics, 61 (2), 253-275. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.01009.x).

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Abstract

Characterizing the quality of dispersion of nanocomposites presents a challenging statistical problem for which no direct method has been fully adopted. A high precision, statistically well-grounded measure is required which is suitable for dealing with a single small non-homogeneous particle pattern obtained from the material. Our approach uses the Delaunay network of particles to measure the area disorder ADDel, which can be further used to categorize a material sample into well or poorly dispersed. ADDel-analysis is applied to several micrographs of nanoparticle-modified materials and found to classify the type of dispersion reliably. Selected spatial point processes are employed to estimate expected imprecision in observed measurements.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 5 January 2012
Published date: March 2012
Keywords: composite material, hard-core model, image analysis, randomness, regularity, small samples, voronoi
Organisations: Statistics

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Local EPrints ID: 193777
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/193777
ISSN: 0035-9254
PURE UUID: 8f7526b4-e403-4af7-a5b6-c2fce6b4e7d8

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Date deposited: 20 Jul 2011 09:02
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 03:56

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Author: David Bray
Author: Steven G. Gilmour
Author: Felicity J. Guild
Author: Ambrose C. Taylor

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