Measurement of Continuous Particle Size Distributions of Finely Dispersed Powders by the Dynamic Light Scattering

Dispersity of finely dispersed powders with continuous bell-shaped particle size distributions is measured. The measurements are performed using two different dynamic light scattering instruments, a transmission electron microscope, and a sedimentograph equipped with an X-ray detector. Correlation functions measured with the dynamic light scattering instruments are processed using the CONTIN and KLUB software packages. Comparative analysis of the results obtained by different methods demonstrated that a reliable information on the dispersity of samples with wide particle size distributions can be obtained but using a combination of several analytical methods.