Recent Advances in Electrochemical Glycobiosensing by Germarie Sánchez-Pomales, Rebecca A. Zangmeister

“…Although the prevalent methods of glycan analysis (high-performance liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy) provide detailed identification and structural analysis of glycan species, there are significantly few low-cost, rapid glycan assays available for diagnostic and screening applications. …”
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CaCO3–Polymer Nanocomposite Prepared with Supercritical CO2 by Hiroaki Wakayama

“…A mixture of poly(vinyl alcohol), Ca acetate, and poly(acrylic acid) was poured into a mold, the mold was placed in an autoclave, and CO2 was introduced to precipitate CaCO3 within the polymer matrix. Laser Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy showed that this process produced a nanocomposite containing highly dispersed CaCO3 (aragonite) nanoparticles. …”
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Cellulosic Fabric Wastes Grafted with DMAEMA for the Removal of Direct Dyes by H.H. Sokker, E.S. Abdel Halim, A.S. Aly, A. Hashem

“…The grafted fabric waste was studied by infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), as well as its surface morphology. …”
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Terahertz Spectral Characteristics of Konjac Gum Determined via Microfluidic Technology by Huimin Jiang, Qingjun Li, Yan Shen, Hangyu Zhou, Yuchai Li, Bo Su, Cunlin Zhang

“…In this study, we designed a special temperature control device and an electric field device for a microfluidic chip to examine the terahertz spectral characteristics of konjac gum at different temperatures, concentrations, and electric field exposure time using the terahertz time domain spectroscopy system. Results demonstrate that higher concentrations of konjac gum lead to higher transmission intensity of terahertz radiation and a lower absorption of the radiation. …”
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Sorption materials based on ethylene glycol dimethacrylate and methacrylic acid copolymers for rare earth elements extraction from aqueous solutions by Zinaida Y Bunina, Katerina Bryleva, Oleg Yurchenko, Kostyantin Belikov

“…The resulting materials were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and infrared spectroscopy. Sorption performance of the polymers synthesized toward gadolinium ions was investigated. …”
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Surface Characterization and Catalytic Activity of Alumina and Alumina-Supported ZnSO Catalysts Prepared from Different Alumina Sources by Farid Sh. Mohamed

“…The alumina and ZnSO 4 -supported samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), FT-IR spectroscopy and nitrogen physisorption methods. Dehydration of 1-butanol and the cracking of cumene were undertaken over the prepared samples using a pulse microcatalytic technique. …”
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Photophysical characterization of chosen Ln(III) macromolecular complexes by Krzysztof Staninski, Stefan Lis

“…Physico-chemical properties of a series of complexes were studied in methanol solution using UV-VIS, IR and fluorescence spectroscopy. It was found that the excitation and fluorescence spectra of DHDA in water and methanol after being exposed to ultraviolet radiation, show very obvious photochromism. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Tetrakis(4-oxo-piperidinium ethylene acetal) Bis Sulfate Hexahydrate by H. Marouani, M. Rzaigui, S. S. Al-Deyab

“…Chemical preparation, x-ray characterization, IR spectroscopy and thermal analysis of a new sulfate (C7H12O2NH2)4(SO4)2.6H2O, are reported. …”
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The fluorescence analysis of laser photolysis of phenols in water by O. Tchaikovskaya, I. Sokolova, O. Bazyl, V. Swetlichnyi, T. Kopylova, G. Mayer, N. Sultimova

“…Photolysis of phenol and p-chlorophenol exposed to KrCl- and Nd-YAG laser light is studied by electron spectroscopy and fluorescence and quantum chemical techniques. …”
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Exoplanet science with SPIRou: near-infrared precision velocimetry and spectropolarimetry by Moutou, Claire, Donati, Jean-François, Debras, Florian

“…With a wide spectral range and large resolving power, SPIRou is also optimized for transmission spectroscopy and for investigating the chemical composition of exoplanetary atmospheres.…”
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Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering as an Emerging Characterization and Detection Technique by Mustafa Culha, Brian Cullum, Nickolay Lavrik, Charles K. Klutse

“…While surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been attracting a continuously increasing interest of scientific community since its discovery, it has enjoyed a particularly rapid growth in the last decade. …”
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A Multiquark Approach to Excited Hadrons and Regge Trajectories by S. S. Afonin

“…We propose a novel approach to construction of hadron spectroscopy. The case of light nonstrange mesons is considered. …”
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Application of Some Starch Hydrogels for the Removal of Mercury(II) Ions from Aqueous Solutions by A. Hashem, F. Ahmad, R. Fahad

“…The prepared hydrogel samples were characterized by estimating their nitrogen and carboxy group contents, and by the application of FT-IR spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM); in addition, their water retention values, WRVs, were also determined. …”
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Adsorption and Corrosion Inhibition Effect of N-(l-Morpholinobenzyl)urea onMild Steel in Acidic Medium by M. Anwar Sathiq, A. Jamal Abdul Nasser, P. Mohamed Sirajudeen

“…The influence of N-(l-morpholinobenzyl)urea (MBU) on corrosion inhibition of mild steel in 1 M HCl was studied by weight loss, effect of temperature, potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The experimental results showed that the inhibition efficiency increases with increasing of MBU concentrations but decreases with increasing temperatures. …”
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Synthesis and Kinetics of Generation of MMS/MFI Materials Prepared on the Basis of Ti-Aerosil by K.M. Khomenko, A.V. Rudneva, E.I. Oranskaya

“…The products were characterized by IR spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and nitrogen adsorption methods. …”
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Multi-walled carbon nanotubes modified by polyaniline for the removal of alizarin yellow R from aqueous solutions by Kaiyue Wu, Jingang Yu, Xinyu Jiang

“…Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) were used to characterize the synthesized composites (O-MWCNTs/PANI), and the surface area was calculated by the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) method. …”
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Grafting of Gold Nanoparticles on Glass Using Sputtered Gold Interlayers by Ondřej Kvítek, Robin Hendrych, Zdeňka Kolská, Václav Švorčík

“…Successful binding of dithiols on the sputtered Au film was confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement. AuNPs bound to the surface were observed using atomic force microscopy. …”
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Electronic Structure and Momentum Density of BaO and BaS by R. Kumar, B. K. Sharma, G. Sharma

“…The electronic structure and electron momentum density distribution in BaO and BaS are presented using Compton spectroscopy. The first-ever Compton profile measurements on polycrystalline BaO and BaS were performed using 59.54 keV gamma-rays. …”
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Preparation of Molecularly Imprinted Regenerated Cellulose Composite Membranes by Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Method for Selective Recognition of Lysozym... by Chaoli Wang, Xiaoling Hu, Ping Guan, Danfeng Wu, Longfei Yang, Chunbao Du

“…The surface compositions of the regenerated cellulose (RC) membranes before and after polymerization were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis, which demonstrated that the molecular imprinting layer was successfully fabricated onto the surface of RC membranes. …”
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Fabrication of Large-Grain Thick Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Films via Aluminum-Induced Crystallization for Application in Solar Cells by Hsiao-Yeh Chu, Min-Hang Weng, Chen Lin

“…The effect of annealing time (15, 30, 60, and 120 minutes) in the second stage on the crystallization of a-Si film is investigated using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy, and Raman spectroscopy. XRD and Raman results confirm that the induced poly-Si films are induced by the proposed process.…”
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