ELECTRON-OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF NANO- AND MICRO-PARTICLES IN RAW AND TREATED WATERS: AN OVERVIEW

Overview of the environmental applications of analytical electronic microscopy (AEM) applied to the study of aquatic nano-particles of minerals (clays, iron oxyhydroxydes, biogenic silica...) and organics (cell debris, fibrils, and humic substances) - Good efficiency of AEM and profitably complement to conventional bulk measurement are highlighted.