The rapid identification of kudzu powder of different origins is of great significance for studying the authenticity identification of Chinese medicine. The feasibility of rapidly identifying kudzu powder origin was investigated based on laser-induce...
Coal is expected to be an important energy resource for some developing countries in the coming decades; thus, the rapid classification and qualification of coal quality has an important impact on the improvement in industrial production and the redu...
The air discharge phenomenon, characterized by its rapid and transient nature, is inherently unpredictable, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive understanding of its physical interactions. Our experimental setup involved voltage generators produc...
The adulteration of olive oil is a crucial matter for food safety authorities, global organizations, and consumers. To guarantee olive oil authenticity, the European Union (EU) has promoted the labeling of olive oils with the indices of Protected Des...
Rapid and efficient elemental characterization of lignocellulosic biomass, such as grapevine cane residues, is essential for its effective utilization in energy and material applications; however, conventional analytical methods typically require ext...
An effective and rapid way to detect thiophanate-methyl residue on mulberry fruit is important for providing consumers with quality and safe of mulberry fruit. Chemical methods are complex, time-consuming, and costly, and can result in sample contami...
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) was applied to perform a rapid elemental analysis and provenance study of Blumea balsamifera DC. Principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) were implemented...
Leaves of yerba mate plant (Ilex paraguariensis) have a wealth of nutrients, ingested by people who drink them in the hot water infusion popularly known as mate. In the present work, the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique was appli...
Excessive emissions of heavy metals not only cause environmental pollution but also pose a direct threat to human health. Therefore, rapid and accurate detection of heavy metals in the environment is of great significance. Herein, we propose a method...
The rapid identification of beached marine micro-plastics is essential for the determination of the source of pollution and for planning the most effective strategies for remediation. In this paper, we present the results obtained by applying the las...
Water quality should be tested to ensure it is acceptable for the healthy growth of plants and animals, and water hardness is one of the important testing indexes. Herein, a novel approach was proposed to achieve high accuracy and rapid quantitative...
This paper demonstrates a novel approach that uses wavelet tessellation in rapid analysis of raw geochemical data produced by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) to produce pseudologs that are representative of stratigraphy. Single-line LIBS...
Nitrogen is an important nutrient element for crop growth. Rapid and accurate acquisition of nitrogen content in cultivation substrate is the key to precise fertilization. In this study, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) was used to detect...
Recent advances in the use of portable/handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) instrumentation have allowed its use directly in the field. In this study, a portable/handheld LIBS demo kit was tested to detect the titanium (Ti) content in...
Structural features of crumb rubber (CR) particles obtained by grinding on rollers and ultra-disperse powder elastomeric modifiers (PEM) obtained by high-temperature shear-induced grinding (HTSG) of CR or co-grinding with butadiene styrene thermoplas...
The growing volume of plastic waste produced has made the need for efficient identification and quantification strategies to detect and identify harmful contaminants, particularly heavy-metals, in industrial plastic-waste streams more urgent than eve...
Proximate analysis of coal is of great significance to ensure the safe and economic operation of coal-fired and biomass-fired power generation units. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) assisted by chemometric methods could realize the predic...
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an atomic-emission spectroscopy technique that employs a focused laser beam to produce microplasma. Although LIBS was designed for applications in the field of materials science, it has lately been propo...
Quick access to cadmium (Cd) contamination in lettuce is important to supervise the leafy vegetable growth environment and market. This study aims to apply laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technology for fast determination of Cd content an...
Fritillaria has a long history in China, and it can be consumed as medicine and food. Owing to the high cost of Fritillaria cirrhosa, traders sometimes mix it with the cheaper Fritillaria thunbergii powder to make profit. Herein, we proposed a laser-...
Tegillarca granosa samples contaminated artificially by three kinds of toxic heavy metals including zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), and lead (Pb) were attempted to be distinguished using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technology and pattern rec...
In order to rationally apply potassium fertilizer, it is very important to realize the rapid and accurate evaluation of soil available potassium (K). Conventional methods are time-consuming, consumables-consuming and laborious. A high-efficiency meth...
Due to the similar chemical composition and matrix effect, the accurate identification of mineral pigments on wall paintings has brought great challenges. This work implemented an identification study on three mineral pigments with similar chemical c...
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a technology for compositional analysis that is particularly effective for light elements, particularly Li, which is a critical commodity for emerging green technologies. This study undertook analysis by...
The breakdown of CF3I gas at low pressure is of significant importance for applications in fields such as aerospace and microelectronics. However, the DC low-pressure breakdown characteristics of CF3I remain underexplored. In this work, we utilize a...
Traffic breakdown refers to the first-order transition from free flow to synchronized flow. It is characterized by a rapid decrease in speed, suddenly increasing density, and abruptly plummeting capacity in most of the relevant observations. To under...
In this study, the design and fabrication of AZO/n-Si Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) with hydrogen plasma treatment on silicon surface and AlxOx guard ring were presented. The Si surface exhibited less interface defects after the cleaning process fol...
Insulating materials can be classified into solid, liquid, and gaseous forms. Solid insulation materials are divided into different types such as organic, inorganic, and polymer types. In electrical circuits, solid insulation materials are generally...
The high-throughput generation of polymeric nanoparticles (PNPs) with tailored size and narrow size distribution is key for applications as relevant as sensing and nanomedicine. Here we show how cavitation bubbles in a microfluidic channel can induce...
Electrochemical parameter identification is crucial for evaluating the electrochemical processes in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE). Conventional characterization techniques-including polarization-curve fitting, electrochemical im...
With the rapid development of modern electrical and electronic applications, the demand for high-performance film capacitors is becoming increasingly urgent. The energy density of a capacitor is dependent on permittivity and breakdown strength. Howev...
This paper describes the unique full-scale bollard pull and self-propulsion tests of a large amphibious tracked military vehicle with two waterjet propulsors. To provide a reference for the self-propulsion and cavitation performance, a series of sea...
Mudrocks are fine-grained clay-rich rocks that comprise different lithotypes forming more than 60% of all sedimentary rocks, and thus, they occur frequently in engineering projects either as natural ground or as made ground. These rocks may display a...
With the rapid development of new electronic products and sustainable energy systems, there is an increasing demand for electrical energy storage devices such as electrostatic capacitors. In order to comprehensively improve the dielectric, insulating...
Dielectric films with a high energy storage density and a large breakdown strength are promising material candidates for pulsed power electrical and electronic applications. Perovskite-type dielectric SrTiO3 (STO) has demonstrated interesting propert...
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technology has the characteristics of small sample demand, simple sample preparation, simultaneous measurement of multiple elements and safety, which has great potential application in the rapid detection o...
With the rapid development of communication, electronics, medical, and energy industries in modern society, film capacitors have garnered widespread attention and undergone significant growth. However, the low energy density (Ue) resulting from low b...
The light-weight aluminium alloys play an important role in reducing emissions from the transport industry. However, to take full advantage of these, the corrosion mechanisms that govern their failure need to be properly understood. Hence, the electr...
With the rapid development of renewable energy, pumped storage power plants have taken on critical functions such as frequency regulation and grid stabilization. Consequently, higher demands are placed on their core component—the pump-turbine&m...
Rapid changes in electricity power markets have increased the production costs of coal-fired power plants and pushed their production to the limits of profitability. For power plants currently in operation, a possible approach to cope with this issue...
Femtosecond laser ablation spark-induced breakdown spectroscopy (fs LA-SIBS) was developed to quantitatively analyze vanadium, molybdenum, chromium, manganese, aluminum, nickel, and copper in a steel alloy. In the experiment, a femtosecond laser oper...
Ca and Mg are key constituents in surface water that are essential nutrients and vital indicators of water hardness. Rapid on-site measurement of Ca and Mg concentrations in surface water is important. However, traditional laboratory detection method...
A contactless power transfer system for charging electric vehicles requires a high efficiency, a large air gap, and a good tolerance to lateral misalignment and needs to be compact and lightweight. A double-sided winding 10 kW transformer based on a...
A computer simulation of the dynamics of an optical discharge produced in the volume of a transparent dielectric (fused silica) by a focused femtosecond laser pulse was carried out taking into account the possibility of developing small-scale ionizat...
In this work, we seek to design a model that contributes to the study and resolution of a multi-objective rescheduling problem in dynamic permutation flow shop contexts. In this type of problem, where the objectives can be valued in heterogeneous uni...
Calcium- and magnesium-fortified potato starches were prepared by immersion in various concentrations of CaCl2 and MgCl2 aqueous solutions, respectively. The pasting properties, i.e., peak viscosity and breakdown, of all the starches obtained above w...
Selective laser sintering (SLS) provides a promising route for the rapid fabrication of polymeric insulating components with complex geometries. However, its layer-by-layer manufacturing process inherently introduces structural anisotropy, which may...
Urea, the end product of protein breakdown, is crucial for detecting chronic conditions. Normal urine urea levels range from 110 to 390 mM. This project aims to create a biosensor for rapid urea monitoring using urease immobilized on bovine serum alb...
Soil structural instability in reservoir riparian zones, induced by water level fluctuations, threatens sustainable land use by accelerating land degradation. This study examined the impact of water-level variations on soil aggregate composition and...
In this work, Sn-doped Ga2O3 films fabricated using plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition were treated by rapid thermal annealing (RTA). The RTA influence on the chemical state, surface morphology, energy band alignment, and electrical properties o...
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