Citations:sa/vol

English citations of sa/vol

(biology) The ratio of the surface area to the volume of an organism.

• 2015, Jilun Liu, Xuanye Leng, Yao Xiao, Chengguo Hu, Lei Fu, “3D nitrogen-doped graphene/β-cyclodextrin: host–guest interactions for electrochemical sensing”, in Nanoscale, number 28:

  Therefore, three-dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene (3D-NG) may be an excellent alternative owing to its high sa/vol, satisfactory capacity for biomolecules and high conductivity, […]

• 2016, Ineke Malsch, Claude Emond, Nanotechnology and Human Health, page 133:

  The reason to employ nanomaterials in the SGSs is that they have very high surface-area-to-volume ratios (sa/vol), which allows that more ambient gas molecules are adsorbed on the material interface.

• 2016, Gregory Morrison and Hans-Conrad zur Loye, “Flux Growth of [NaK₆F][(UO₂)₃(Si₂O₇)₂] and [KK₆Cl][(UO₂)₃(Si₂O₇)₂]: The Effect of Surface Area to Volume Ratios on Reaction Products”, in Crystal Growth & Design, volume 16, number 3:

  The reaction products were found to be very dependent on the surface area to volume (sa/vol) ratio of the melt with small sa/vol ratios favoring the growth of the salt-inclusion phases.

• 2018, Ranjita Shegokar, Eliana B. Souto, Emerging Nanotechnologies in Immunology, page 47:

  Different optical, electrical, magnetic, chemical, and mechanical properties of nanomaterials from their bulk counterparts are related to their quantum size-range and the surface-area-to-volume ratio (sa/vol). The sa/vol of most materials augments gradually as their particles become smaller.