The effect of excipients on the stability and aerosol performance of salmon calcitonin dry powder inhalers prepared via the spray freeze drying process by Poursina Narges, Vatanara Alireza, Rouini Mohammad Reza, Gilani Kambiz, Najafabadi Abdolhossein Rouholamini

“…Chemically stable formulations (over 90 % recovery) were selected for further examinations. Fluorescence spectroscopy and circular dichroism suggested that the formulations were structurally stable. …”
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Evolution of secondary phases in 0.17C-16Cr-11Mn-0.43N austenitic stainless steel at 800 and 850°C: Thermodynamic modeling of phase equilibria and experimental kinetic studies by Čička R., Bakajová J., Štefániková M., Dománková M., Janovec J.

“…Light microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and differential thermal analysis were used in experiments. …”
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Effect of sodium lauroyl sarcosinate on the thermal, optical and moisture absorption properties of polyvinylpyrrolidone film by Ian Pellinca Braga Caetano, Danielle Marques de Araújo Stapelfeldt, Rodrigo de Siqueira Melo, Kênia da Silva Freitas, Ana Lucia Shiguihara, Jorge Amim Júnior

“…The obtained films (PVP/SLS) were characterized by means of attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), optical properties, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and moisture absorption (MA). …”
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Experimental Study of the Influence of the Adsorbate Layer Composition on the Wetting of Different Substrates with Water by Michaela Heier, Rolf Merz, Stefan Becker, Kai Langenbach, Michael Kopnarski, Hans Hasse

“…The analysis of the adsorbate layer was carried out with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The results for the different substrates reveal that the water contact angle depends mainly on the composition of the adsorbate layer. …”
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Prototype analysis of a low-power, small-scale wearable medical device by Silva Pablo Dutra da, Filho Pedro Bertemes

“…This multi-sensor device incorporates electrical bioimpedance spectroscopy as one of its measurement techniques. One of the earlier versions of the device was deemed unsuitable as a wearable due to its large size and high power consumption. …”
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Pseudocapacitive performance of cobaltite and nickel cobaltite electrodes fabricated by layer-by-layer chemical deposition method by Mahdi Kazazi, Mohsen Mirzaie, Javad Rahimi Junaqani

“…Pseudocapacitive performance of the electrodes was obtained by cyclic voltammetry (CV), galvanostatic charge-discharge (GCD) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements. The results demonstrated that the nickel cobaltite electrode exhibited superior charge storage performance including a high specific capacitance of 1251 F g-1 at 1 A g-1 and good rate capability (89.7% capacitance retention with a 10-fold increase in the current rate), which were higher than those for the cobaltite electrode.…”
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An Experiment and Detection Scheme for Cavity-Based Light Cold Dark Matter Particle Searches by Masroor H. S. Bukhari, Zahoor H. Shah

“…We believe that all these factors and our propositions could possibly improve or at least simplify the resonance detection and read-out in cavity-based DM particle detection searches (and other spectroscopy applications) and reduce the complications (and associated costs), in addition to reducing the electromagnetic interference and background.…”
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Green Route for Efficient Synthesis of Novel Amino Acid Schiff Bases as Potent Antibacterial and Antifungal Agents and Evaluation of Cytotoxic Effects by Harshita Sachdeva, Rekha Saroj, Sarita Khaturia, Diksha Dwivedi, Om Prakash Chauhan

“…The synthesized compounds are characterized by FT-IR, 13CNMR, and 1HNMR spectroscopy and are screened for their antifungal activity against Aspergillus niger, Penicillium notatum, Fusarium oxysporum, Alternaria brassicicola, Chaetomium orium, and Lycopodium sp. and antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria, Bacillus licheniformis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Micrococcus luteus, and Gram-negative bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. …”
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Monitoring of perioperative tissue perfusion and impact on patient outcomes by Bin Li, Yuchen Dai, Wenlan Cai, Menghan Sun, Jie Sun

“…Non-quantitative markers like skin color and temperature, and quantitative indicators like tissue oxygen saturation and laser Doppler flowmetry, help assess microcirculation but can’t fully evaluate systemic perfusion. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) monitors tissue oxygen metabolism, reflecting oxygen supply and consumption balance. …”
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Biological Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles by Cell-Free Extract of Spirulina platensis by Gaurav Sharma, Nakuleshwar Dut Jasuja, Manoj Kumar, Mohammad Irfan Ali

“…Biosynthesised AgNPs were characterised by UV-Vis spectroscopy, SEM, TEM, and FTIR analysis and finally evaluated for antibacterial activity. …”
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Phase transformation and microstructure study of the as-cast Cu-rich Cu-Al-Mn ternary alloys by Holjevac-Grgurić T., Manasijević D., Kožuh S., Ivanić I., Balanović Lj., Anžel I., Kosec B., Bizjak M., Knežević M., Gojić M.

“…Microstructural investigations of the prepared samples were performed by using optical microscopy (OM) and scanning electron microscopy, equipped by energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS). Assignation of crystalline phases was confirmed by XRD analysis. …”
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Corrosion Behavior and Microhardness of a New B₄C Ceramic Doped with 3% Volume High-Entropy Alloy in an Aggressive Environment by Alberto Daniel Rico-Cano, Julia Claudia Mirza-Rosca, Burak Cagri Ocak, Gultekin Goller

“…Corrosion behavior was studied by corrosion potential, corrosion rate and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, where the equivalent circuit was obtained, characterized by the presence of the Warburg element. …”
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Ultra-fast etching of photoresist by reactive atmospheric-pressure thermal plasma jet with surface temperature measurement by Kyohei Matsumoto, Hibiki Kato, Jiawen Yu, Hiroaki Hanafusa, Seiichiro Higashi

“…Optical interference contactless thermometry (OICT) and optical emission spectroscopy were carried out to clarify the relationship between the etching rate, amount of atomic oxygen radicals, and PR surface temperature. …”
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Hybrid Carbon Fibers/Carbon Nanotubes Structures for Next Generation Polymeric Composites by M. Al-Haik, C. C. Luhrs, M. M. Reda Taha, A. K. Roy, L. Dai, J. Phillips, S. Doorn

“…Characterization for comparison between both techniques was compared via SEM, TEM, and Raman spectroscopy analysis. It is shown that while both techniques were successful to grow CNTs on the carbon fiber surfaces, iron sputtering technique was capable of producing more uniform distribution of iron catalyst and thus multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) compared to MWCNTs grown using the electrochemical deposition of iron.…”
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Study of 1D Strange Charmed Meson Family Using HQET by Pallavi Gupta, A. Upadhyay

“…Recently LHCb predicted spin 1 and spin 3 states Ds1⁎(2860) and Ds3⁎(2860) which are studied through their strong decays and are assigned to fit the 13D1 and 13D3 states in the charm spectroscopy. In this paper, using the heavy quark effective theory, we state that assigning Ds1⁎(2860) as the mixing of 13D1-23S1 states is rather a better justification to its observed experimental values than a pure state. …”
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Application of Metabolomics in Thyroid Cancer Research by Anna Wojakowska, Mykola Chekan, Piotr Widlak, Monika Pietrowska

“…Metabolomics using mass spectrometry and magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques allows qualitative and quantitative profiling of small molecules present in biological systems. …”
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Facile Preparation of Phosphotungstic Acid-Impregnated Yeast Hybrid Microspheres and Their Photocatalytic Performance for Decolorization of Azo Dye by Lan Chen, Bo Bai

“…Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) elucidates that the functional groups or chemical bonds inherited from the pristine yeast cell were critical to the assembling of the composites. …”
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Anodized CuO Nanoflakes for the Antibacterial and Antifungal Applications by Niharika MP, B. Manmadha Rao

“…The tenorite phase and monoclinic structure were validated through XRD analysis with the average crystallite size in the range of 15.3 nm, whereas FESEM recorded nanowire and nanoflake morphologies which showed variable activities against bacteria. UV–Vis spectroscopy obtained a bandgap ranging between 1.42 and 1.44 eV. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of novel functional vinyl ethers that bear various groups by Fayad, Antoinette, El Malti, Wassim, Ameduri, Bruno, Alaaeddine, Ali

“…All VEs were characterized using $^{1}$H and $^{13}$C NMR spectroscopy.…”
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Preparation of Fluorine-Doped TiO2 Photocatalysts with Controlled Crystalline Structure by N. Todorova, T. Giannakopoulou, G. Romanos, T. Vaimakis, Jiaguo Yu, C. Trapalis

“…X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) revealed that the fluorine is presented in the TiO2 powders mainly as metal fluoride in quantities ∼16 at %. …”
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