A multistage, semi-automated procedure for analyzing the morphology of nanoparticles

Chiwoo Park, Jianhua Huang, David Huitink, Subrata Kundu, Bani Mallick, Hong Liang and Yu Ding

IISE Transactions, 2012, vol. 44, issue 7, 507-522

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2011.587867

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