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Journal of Electron Microscopy Advance Access published online on October 25, 2009
Journal of Electron Microscopy, doi:10.1093/jmicro/dfp051
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Fibre width measurement and quantification of filler size distribution in paper-based materials by SEM and image analysis

Hamid Bennis1,2*, Rachid Benslimane1, Silvia Vicini3, Angelita Mairani3 and Elisabetta Princi3

1 Laboratoire de Traitement d’Images et d’Information, Ecole Supérieure de Technologie, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, B.P. 2427 Fez, Morocco
2 Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et Télécommunications, Faculté des Sciences, Mohammed V Agdal University, B.P. 1014 Rabat, Morocco
3 Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University of Genova, Via Dodecaneso 31, 16146 Genova, Italy

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hamid.bennis{at}gmail.com

In this paper the development of image processing and analysis routines for acquiring information about the paper structure from images obtained by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is described. A new method to measure the fibre width based on the processing of superficial SEM observation is herein proposed and successfully applied to some commercial paper-based materials. The quantification of fillers in the Z-direction of paper was based on paper cross-sectional SEM images. The results obtained by image processing demonstrated the excellent performance and suitability of the proposed method to quantify exactly information concerning fraction and size distribution of digital fillers. The fraction of digital fillers was correlated with the surface roughness of a given paper grade.

Keywords     SEM, image analysis, fibre width, cross-section, filler Z-distribution, surface roughness

Received     10 June 2009, accepted 17 September 2009


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