A preliminary investigation of the properties of plantain starch-chitosan composite films containing Panadol leaf extracts by Chad Lafeuillee, Rohanie Maharaj

“…Evaluations included antioxidant capacity, total phenolic and flavonoid contents, water solubility, swelling indices, water vapour transmission rates and optical properties. Antimicrobial activity was tested using the disk diffusion method and plate count agar. …”
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Dust Aerosols Detected Using a Ground-Based Polarization Lidar and CALIPSO over Wuhan (30.5°N, 114.4°E), China by Yun He, Fan Yi

“…The vertical distribution, horizontal range, and optical properties of Asian dust were obtained using a ground-based depolarization lidar and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) over a two-year measurement period (2010–2012) in Wuhan (30.5°N, 114.4°E), China. …”
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Structural, Optical Constants and Photoluminescence of ZnO Thin Films Grown by Sol-Gel Spin Coating by Abdel-Sattar Gadallah, M. M. El-Nahass

“…For structural properties, X-ray diffraction measurements have been utilized for evaluating the dominant orientation of the thin films. For optical properties, reflectance and transmittance spectrophotometric measurements have been done in the spectral range from 350 nm to 2000 nm. …”
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Functionalized Waterborne Polyurethane-Based Graphite-Reinforced Composites by Nur Munirah Abdullah, Anika Zafiah Mohd Rus, M. F. L. Abdullah

“…Further studies in optical properties consequently attribute decreasing values in optical energy band gap (Eg) which afterwards took the leads to electrical conductivity (σ). …”
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Solar Driven photocatalysis using CoFe2O4-CNT nanocomposites for degradation of hazardous Rose Bengal dye by Vikas Vikas, Pawan S. Rana

“…UV-Vis. spectroscopy and Photoluminescence (PL) were used to study the optical properties of the samples, indicating that the bandgap of the sample is within the visible range, making it suitable for visible light photocatalysis. …”
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Physical properties of nanostructured ZnO thin films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering method with different volume of O2 in carrier gas by Asgary Somayeh, Ramezani Amir Hoshang, Mahmoodi Azam

“…The effects of different oxygen concentration in carrier gas on structural, morphological and optical properties have been investigated. The increase of O2 concentration resulted in the decrease of preferred orientation intensity and peak shifting to lower 2θ values. …”
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Synthesis, growth and characterization of magnesium chloride doped L-alanine cadmium chloride single crystal: For nonlinear optical application by Dessale Alemu, Idris Shafi, Tizazu Abza

“…The single crystal X-ray diffraction studies of pure, 1 and 2 mol% MgCl2 doped LACC single crystals revealed monoclinic crystal structure with C2 space group. The optical properties of pure and MgCl2 doped LACC single crystals investigated by UV–VIS/NIR spectrometer confirmed that the crystals were transparent in the wavelength range of 230-1100 nm. …”
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Synthesis, growth and characterization of magnesium chloride doped L-alanine cadmium chloride single crystal: For nonlinear optical application by Dessale Alemu, Idris Shafi, Tizazu Abza

“…The single crystal X-ray diffraction studies of pure, 1 and 2 mol% MgCl2 doped LACC single crystals revealed monoclinic crystal structure with C2 space group. The optical properties of pure and MgCl2 doped LACC single crystals investigated by UV–VIS/NIR spectrometer confirmed that the crystals were transparent in the wavelength range of 230-1100 nm. …”
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Solar-Thermal Performance of Sparked Stainless Steel-based Solar Absorber under Solar Concentration by Tapsanit Piyawath

“…Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy confirmed the formation of a random nanotexture of magnetite on the sparked surface, contributing to the improved optical properties. The solar-thermal performance of the sparked stainless steel is maximized at 84.0% when the absorber temperature aligns with the ambient temperature or under conditions of extreme optical concentration. …”
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Green Approach for Fabrication and Applications of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles by Brajesh Kumar, Kumari Smita, Luis Cumbal, Alexis Debut

“…Structural, morphological, and optical properties of the synthesized nanoparticles have been characterized by using UV-Vis spectrophotometer, TEM, DLS, and FTIR analysis. …”
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Impact of synthesized Zero-valance silver nanoparticles on acetylcholinesterase and xanthine oxidase: Toxicological and environmental implications by Srwa Hashim Mohammed, Ahmed Mahdi Rheima, Dhiey A. Al-aameri, Haider Kamil Zaidan, Zainab T. Al-Sharify

“…This study involved the synthesis of spherical silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using ultraviolet (UV) irradiation and their subsequent characterization regarding structural and optical properties. The synthesizer technique utilized X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to ascertain the form and size of the nanoparticles, indicating an average diameter of approximately 20.23 nm. …”
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Evolutionary Algorithm Geometry Optimization of Optical Antennas by Ramón Díaz de León-Zapata, Gabriel González, Efrén Flores-García, Ángel Gabriel Rodríguez, Francisco Javier González

“…The radiation patterns and optical properties of the GA generated geometries were compared with the conventional dipole geometry. …”
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Functional Conducting Polymers in the Application of SPR Biosensors by Rapiphun Janmanee, Sopis Chuekachang, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant

“…In recent years, conducting polymers have emerged as one of the most promising transducers for both chemical, sensors and biosensors owing to their unique electrical, electrochemical and optical properties that can be used to convert chemical information or biointeractions into electrical or optical signals, which can easily be detected by modern techniques. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Low Temperature Sintering of Nanostructured BaWO4 for Optical and LTCC Applications by S. Vidya, Sam Solomon, J. K. Thomas

“…The particle size from the transmission electron microscopy is 22 nm. The basic optical properties and optical constants of the nano BaWO4 are studied using UV-visible absorption spectroscopy which showed that the material is a wide band gap semiconductor with band gap of 4.1 eV. …”
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Study of polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals for reflective displays in active matrix driving by Kuan-Wu Lin, Jhih-Yi Lu, Heng-Yi Tseng, Chien-Yi Lin, Liang Ying Huang, Yi-Ling Lin, Huan-Hsuan Chang, Tsung-Hsien Lin

“…Key parameters such as cell gap, monomer concentration, polymerization temperature, and different monomer types and liquid crystal hosts are systematically investigated to optimize the electro-optical properties of the liquid crystals for active matrix driving. …”
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Studying the Physical Properties of Silver Telluride Films Doped with Aluminum by the Effect of Annealing by liqaa Al-Dulaimi, Aliyah A. Shihab

“… The structural and optical properties of silver telluride films with doped 2% aluminum (Ag2Te:2%Al), prepared using the thermal evaporation technique, were studied on glass substrates with a thickness of (400+ 20) nm after changing the annealing temperature to (300° C) for one hour. …”
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Highly efficient polyethylene glycol‐functionalised gold nanorods for photothermal ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma cells by Xingyu Du, Wei‐Chih Lin, Hsing‐Hao Su

“…The GNR biocompatibility was considerably improved without any shift of the optical properties. Hepatocellular carcinoma cells were incubated with GNRs for 24 h and then were irradiated with a near‐infrared laser for 3 min. …”
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Fluorescence Properties of Novel Multiresonant Indolocarbazole Derivatives for Deep-Blue OLEDs from Multiscale Computer Modelling by Nikita O. Dubinets, Andrey Yu. Sosorev

“…In this study, we applied DFT and multiscale modelling to predict the electronic and optical properties of several novel derivatives of indolocarbazole pSFIAc, which had recently shown a high potential in deep-blue OLEDs. …”
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Structural, Morphological, Optical, and Antibacterial Activities of Zinc Oxide Nanopowders: A Comparative Study of Green and Soft Chemical Synthesis by K. Catherine Siriya Pushpa, P. Sakthivel, K. Saravanakumar, N. Anuradha, R. K. Sankaranarayanan, Mosae Selvakumar Paulraj

“…UV-vis-DRS spectroscopy was used to investigate optical properties such as reflectance and band gap. The grain size of the G-ZnO nanopowders was decreased, and oxygen vacancy was produced. …”
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Reflection of two-dimensional surface polaritons by metallic nano-plates on atomically thin crystals by Lee Seojoo, Kang Ji-Hun

“…Owning to their unusual optical properties, such as electrical tunability and strong spatial confinement, two-dimensional surface polaritons (2DSPs) hold great promise for deep sub-wavelength manipulation of light in a reduced low-dimensional space. …”
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