%0 Patent %T Method for determining the size distribution of a mixture of particles using taylor dispersion, and associated system. %+ Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron [Pôle Chimie Balard] (IBMM) %+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C) %+ Physique et mécanique des milieux hétérogenes (UMR 7636) (PMMH) %A Cottet, Hervé %A Cipelletti, Luca %A Martin, Michel %A Biron, Jean-Philippe %N WO2014001409A1 %Z L2C:12-396 %C France %8 2014-01-03 %D 2014 %Z Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Soft Condensed Matter [cond-mat.soft]Patents %X This method comprises steps consisting in: injecting (100) a sample into a capillary tube; conveying (110) the sample along the capillary tube, under experimental conditions able to generate a Taylor dispersion effect; generating (120) a signal characterising the Taylor dispersion; processing (130) said signal to obtain the experimental Taylor signal Ŝ(t); and analysing (200) said experimental Taylor signal Ŝ(t). The analyzing step consists in obtaining an amplitude distribution P(G(c)) allowing said experimental Taylor signal Ŝ(t) to be decomposed into a sum of Gaussian functions by implementing a constraint-solving algorithm consisting in minimising a cost function Ha comprising at least one constraint term associated with a constraint that the amplitude distribution P(G(c)) must respect, this minimisation being carried out over a range of values of interest of a parameter G(c) characterising the Gaussian amplitude function P(G(c)). %G English %L hal-00827399 %U https://hal.science/hal-00827399 %~ ESPCI %~ CNRS %~ ENSC-MONTPELLIER %~ PMMH %~ IBMM %~ PARISTECH %~ L2C %~ LPMMH %~ INC-CNRS %~ PSL %~ MIPS %~ CHIMIE %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE %~ SU-INF-2018 %~ SU-SCIENCES %~ UNIV-PARIS %~ UP-SCIENCES %~ ESPCI-PSL %~ ALLIANCE-SU %~ UM-2015-2021 %~ TEST2-HALCNRS