Preparation of [C60]Fullerene Nanowhisker-gold Nanoparticle Composites and Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol through Catalysis by Jeong Won Ko, Jiulong Li, Weon Bae Ko

“…The product of the nanocomposites was characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and solid- state 13C-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. …”
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Saint John at Calvary: technical and material study of a polychrome wood sculpture by Helena Pereira

“…Radiography, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy were used. Some unusual characteristics have been detected, like the employment of wood with some imperfections and, specially, the use of brochantite and antlerite as pigments.…”
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Chiral-odd gluon generalized parton distributions in the proton: A light-front quantization approach by Bolang Lin, Sreeraj Nair, Chandan Mondal, Siqi Xu, Zhi Hu, Pengxiang Zhang, Xingbo Zhao, James P. Vary

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The influence of compost humic acid quality and its ability to alleviate soil salinity stress by S. El hasini, M. De Nobili, M. El. Azzouzi, K. Azim, A. Douaik, M. Laghrour, Y. El idrissi, M. El alaoui El belghiti, A. Zouahri

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Azurin a potent anticancer and antimicrobial agent isolated from a novel Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain by Nourhan A. Zaghloul, Mona K. Gouda, Yasser Elbahloul, Nancy M. El Halfawy

“…The partially purified azurin protein was characterized using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. …”
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Research on the Interaction between Eight Polyphenols and Arachin by Zuwei ZHANG, Rurui LI, Cong YANG, Yongyan MENG, Mingjuan SHEN, Jian SUN, Xuechun ZHANG

“…UV-visible spectroscopy revealed that the polyphenols altered the microenvironment surrounding the amino acid residues of arachin, leading to changes in its molecular conformation. …”
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Photocatalytic Activity under Simulated Sunlight of Bi-Modified TiO2 Thin Films Obtained by Sol Gel by D. A. Solís-Casados, L. Escobar-Alarcón, V. Alvarado-Pérez, E. Haro-Poniatowski

“…The obtained materials were characterized by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Raman spectroscopy (RS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence (PL), and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), in order to obtain information on their chemical composition, vibrational features, and optical properties, respectively. …”
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A review of optical gas sensing technology for dissolved gas analysis in transformer oil by Jialiang Dai, Jialiang Dai, Bing Luo, Xiaowen Shen, Xiaowen Shen, Wenfei Han, Wenfei Han, Ruyue Cui, Ruyue Cui, Jintao Wu, Jintao Wu, Haofeng Zhang, Wei Xiao, Zheng Zhong, Lei Dong, Lei Dong, Hongpeng Wu, Hongpeng Wu

“…This paper reviews the commonly used sensing technologies for analyzing dissolved gases in transformer oil, including Raman spectroscopy (RS), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) and photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS). …”
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Highly ordered polyaniline as an efficient dye remover by Pinki Chakraborty, Aman Kothari, Rajamani Nagarajan

“…The obtained polymers were characterized by high resolution powder X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman, UV–Visible, photoluminescence spectroscopy, thermogravimetric Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) techniques. …”
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Vanadium Pentoxide Nanoparticles Doped ZnO: Physicochemical, Optical, Dielectric, and Photocatalytic Properties by Imen Massoudi, Ridha Hamdi, Amani Rached, Zainah A. AlDhawi, Fatimah M. Alobaidan, Hawra M. Alhamdan, Ghadeer A. Almohammed Ali, Fatimah E. Almuslim, Amor Ben Ali

“…The prepared samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy combined with energy-dispersive spectroscopy, and UV-visible spectroscopy. …”
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Mass‐Guided Single‐Cell MALDI Imaging of Low‐Mass Metabolites Reveals Cellular Activation Markers by James L. Cairns, Johanna Huber, Andrea Lewen, Jessica Jung, Stefan J. Maurer, Tobias Bausbacher, Stefan Schmidt, Pavel A. Levkin, Daniel Sevin, Kerstin Göpfrich, Philipp Koch, Oliver Kann, Carsten Hopf

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Optimization of Antibacterial, Structures, and Thermal Properties of Alginate-ZrO2 Bionanocomposite by the Taguchi Method by Mohsen Safaei, Hedaiat Moradpoor, Mohammad Salmani Mobarakeh, Nima Fallahnia

“…Analysis of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis), spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) indicated the development of nanocomposites with appropriate structural properties. …”
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Mechanism of aluminum carbide formation in aluminum electrolysis cells by Wang Y.-W., Hao P.-C., Peng J.-P., Di Y.-Z.

“…The Na-GIC characteristics and the products of aluminum and Na-GIC reactions were investigated by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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ηQ Meson Photoproduction in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions by Gong-Ming Yu, Gao-Gao Zhao, Zhen Bai, Yan-Bing Cai, Hai-Tao Yang, Jian-Song Wang

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Preparation, Characterization, and Activity of Y2O3-ZnO Complex Oxides for the Photodegradation of 2,4-Dinitrophenol by Tong-ming Su, Zu-zeng Qin, Hong-bing Ji, Yue-xiu Jiang

“…The Y2O3-ZnO complex oxides were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, physisorption analyzer, and terephthalic acid photoluminescence probing techniques and were used for the degradation of 2,4-dinitrophenol. …”
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Characterization of Layer Number of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Diselenide Semiconducting Devices Using Si-Peak Analysis by Xian Zhang

“…Although Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for determining the layer number of 2-D materials such as graphene and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), there have been difficulties in precisely characterizing the layer number for MoSe2 and WSe2 by Raman spectroscopy due to the uncertain shifts during the Raman measurement process and the lack of multiple separated Raman peaks in MoSe2 and WSe2 for referencing. …”
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Parallel tempered Bayesian inference for characterizing non-ideal semiconductors: Carrier trapping in cadmium telluride thin films by Calvin Fai, Anthony J.C. Ladd, Charles J. Hages, Gregory A. Manoukian, Jason B. Baxter

“…Finally, we have combined TRPL with time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy (TRTS) to describe the dynamics on nanosecond to microsecond time scales. …”
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Structural, Morphological, and Antibacterial Attributes of Graphene Oxide Prepared by Hummers’ and Brodie’s Methods by Vittorio Marsala, Yuriy Gerasymchuk, Maria Luisa Saladino, Emil Paluch, Magdalena Wawrzyńska, Vitalii Boiko, Xiang Li, Cristina Giordano, Dariusz Hreniak, Beata Sobieszczańska

“…Synthesis of GO with Brodie’s and modified Hummers’ methods was followed by an evaluation of their structural, morphological, and physicochemical properties by Raman, FTIR, UV–vis spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The GO-B surface appeared more oxidized than that of GO-H, which could be crucial for interactions with bacteria. …”
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Canvas support impregnation materials and techniques: a study of Portuguese painting and its conservation issues by Andréa Carolina Teixeira

“…This paper focuses on the study of oil based coating impregnations, applied in the past, on the reverse of Portuguese painting canvas supports.The scientific study of the impregnation materials found in the painting “The Knight of the Order of Malta” (18th century) was carried out on samples using several analytical techniques – Optical Microscopy (OM) under visible reflected and polarised light and ultraviolet fluorescence (UV); Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS), Fourier transform Infrared spectroscopy (transmission and FTIR-ATR), and Scanning electron microscopy coupled with an energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX) – in order to identify the materials and the techniques used in this practice.…”
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Properties of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Films and Solar Cells Deposited by Hybrid Process by S. Marsillac, H. Khatri, K. Aryal, R.W. Collins

“…The films were characterized by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, glancing incidence X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, auger electron spectroscopy, and transmittance and reflectance spectroscopy, and their properties were compared to the ones of films deposited by coevaporation. …”
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