Particle sizing in milk by combined differential dynamic microscopy and cryo-FIB-SEM tomography
Joe J. Bradley, Fraser H. J. Laidlaw, Tom Pendry, Ngai Ying Denise Li, Alexander K. Boggon, Thomas Glen, Vincent A. Martinez, Jochen Arlt, Job H. J. Thijssen, Wilson C. K. Poon · 2026
Read Particle sizing in milk by combined differential dynamic microscopy and cryo-FIB-SEM tomography by Joe J. Bradley, Fraser H. J. Laidlaw, Tom Pendry, Ngai Ying Denise Li, Alexander K. Boggon, Thomas Glen, Vincent A. Martinez, Jochen Arlt, Job H. J. Thijssen, Wilson C. K. Poon (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13220121.txt.
Description
Joe Bradley and co-authors report a 2026 physics study on how to measure the tiny particles in milk. Milk holds fat drops and much smaller protein clusters called casein micelles, and most sizing tools cannot tell the two apart.
The team combined two methods on homogenised milk, meaning milk treated so the fat stays evenly mixed. A microscopy method tracked particle motion in the liquid, while a frozen-sample imaging method cut and viewed thin layers directly. Together they showed two overlapping size groups without first separating the milk. The authors note that different tools rarely give the same answer, so using both gives a fuller picture.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Joe J. Bradley, Fraser H. J. Laidlaw, Tom Pendry, Ngai Ying Denise Li, Alexander K. Boggon, Thomas Glen, Vincent A. Martinez, Jochen Arlt, Job H. J. Thijssen, Wilson C. K. Poon |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33600 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |