Brewer’s spent grain (BSG) is a residue that holds significant potential for various applications. Given its inherently high moisture levels, it becomes imperative to explore methods for preserving it. This study investigates the use of refract...
Microalgae such as Spirulina platensis have recently attracted the interest of the pharmaceutical, nutritional and food industries due to their high levels of proteins and bioactive compounds. In this study, we investigated the use of refractance win...
One of the remarkable choices for active smart window technology is adopting a metal active layer via reversible metal electrodeposition (RME). As the metal layer efficiently blocks the solar energy gain, even a hundred-nanometer-thick scale, RME-bas...
This research studied the use of CO2 LASER microperforation as a pretreatment for the refractive window (RW) drying of apple slices with respect to total polyphenol content (TPC), antioxidant capacity, color ΔE, and product stability under acce...
The objective of this work was to study the influence of the drying temperature, infrared (IR) radiation assistance, and the Mylar™ film thickness during Physalis fruit purée drying by the Refractance Window™ (RW™) method. Fo...
The objective of this study was to develop a dried apple snack enriched with probiotics, evaluate its viability using Refractance Window (RWTM) drying, and compare it with conventional hot air drying (CD) and freeze-drying (FD). Apple slices were imp...
Onions have a high moisture content, which makes them more susceptible to microbial growth. Drying is one of the postharvest preservation methods applied to decrease onion moisture content, thereby increasing its storage life. In this study, onions w...
Laser scanning 3D imaging technology, because it can obtain accurate three-dimensional surface data, has been widely used in the search for wrecks and rescue operations, underwater resource development, and other fields. At present, the conventional...
In this study, a multiple linear regression equation was developed to measure and predict quality parameters of unconcentrated and concentrated milk based on color components. The viscosity, density, pH, moisture, and fat content could be measured us...
The convective hot-air drying technology can cause physicochemical, nutritional, and organoleptic losses in the mango (Mangifera indica). The present Systematic Review was carried out with the objective of comparing mango dehydration technologies to...
This study presents a novel and highly accurate method of measuring the geometric thickness of the self-lubricating fabric liner of bearings by combining the optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology and the Hanning-windowed energy centrobaric me...
The storage characteristics of folic acid and NaFeEDTA fortified in a refractance window-dried turmeric powder base and its subsequent application to the formulation of nutritionally functionalized golden milk have not been addressed in previous stud...
Terahertz (THz), as an advanced spectral technology, has unique absorption characteristics for most biological macromolecules. In this work, the theoretical fundamentals for the application of THz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) to molecular chara...
Drying is a crucial postharvest preservation step, particularly for fruits and vegetables, due to their high moisture content. Physical, sensory, and storage qualities after drying are of interest to food engineers; however, for medicinal purposes, s...
One of the essential factors for the selection of the drying process is energy consumption. This study intended to optimize the drying treatment of capers using convection (CD), refractive window (RWD), and vacuum drying (VD) combined with ultrasonic...
The aim of this study was to compare the refractance window drying method (RWD) with the hot air oven drying (HD), vacuum drying (VD), and freeze-drying (FD) methods in order to analyze the outcomes of the qualitative properties of dragon fruit slice...
Guava is widely consumed because of its agro-industrial use, and its antioxidant properties attributed to vitamin C and carotenoids content. However, it has a short shelf life. Guava has been dried by atomization, fluidized bed, lyophilization (FD) a...
In this work, we deepen in the characterization of two protic ionic liquids (PILs), ethylammonium nitrate (EAN) and propylammonium nitrate (PAN). With this aim, we determined the influence of inorganic nitrate salts addition on their physical propert...
Due to the harsh environment of high humidity and dust in tunnel construction, the vision measurement system needs to be equipped with an explosion-proof glass protective cover. The refractive effect of the plate glass window invalidates the pinhole...
The increasing demand for functional foods with added health benefits has driven the development of innovative food products. This study aimed to develop a functional snack made from Granny Smith apples enriched with hydrolyzed collagen using impregn...
In most cases, conventional drying produces inferior quality products and requires higher drying times. A continuous pilot Refractance Window® equipment was used to dry Aloe vera gel slabs of 5 and 10 mm thick at 60, 70, 80, and 90 °C, seeking a dry...
The selection of appropriate probiotic strains is vital for their successful inclusion in foods. These strains must withstand processing to reach consumers with ≥106 CFU/g, ensuring effective probiotic function. Achieving this in commercial produc...
Intensive research on biodegradable films based on natural raw materials such as carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) has been performed because it enables the production of transparent films with suitable barrier properties against oxygen and fats. Conside...
Drying is one of the most common and effective techniques for preserving the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of medicinal plants in the post-harvest phase. Therefore, in this research, the effect of the new refractance window (RW) techno...
Curcuma longa powder was prepared by refractance window drying (RWD) and was fortified. Fortification of dried turmeric powder with folic acid and NaFeEDTA, along with its characterization, was achieved. Characterization techniques, such as FTIR, XRD...
Transparent polyimides with excellent mechanical properties and high optical transmittance have been widely used in various optical and electrical applications. However, due to the rigidity of their aromatic structure, their flexibility is limited, m...
The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technique is a well-known optical method that can be used to measure the refractive index of organic nano-layers adsorbed on a thin metal film. Although there are many configurations for measuring biomolecular inte...
For photothermal therapy of cancer, it is necessary to find Ag @TiO2 core-shell nanoparticles that can freely tune the resonance wavelength within the near-infrared biological window. In this paper, the finite element method and the size-dependent re...
Nowadays, due to the advantages of non-contact and high-speed, vision-based pose measurements have been widely used for aircraft performance testing in a wind tunnel. However, usually glass ports are used to protect cameras against the high-speed air...
Traditionally, an open window is considered a kind of reference for perfect sound absorption. The sound reflection and absorption of an aperture is analyzed by means of an impedance model representing a rectangular absorbing surface surrounded by a t...
The growing interest in sustainable materials has encouraged the valorization of agro-industrial byproducts for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and food applications. This study evaluated yellow pitaya peel powder, obtained via convective and refracta...
When photographing objects underwater, it is important to utilize an optical window to isolate the imaging device from the water. The properties of the entire imaging system will change, and the imaging quality will decrease due to the refraction imp...
A plasmonic, refractive, index nanosensor is investigated theoretically and numerically in two U-shaped cavities side-coupled to a metal–dielectric–metal (MDM) waveguide. A transparency window between two transmission dips is observed. Th...
Thanks to their lower losses and sharper resonances compared to their metallic counterparts, all-dielectric metasurfaces are attracting a quickly growing research interest. The application of such metasurfaces in the field of refractive index sensing...
The refractive index is an important parameter for the restoration of historical cultural heritage and for non-destructive optical techniques. In this study, different mathematical models for lead glasses were assessed in order to analyze their feasi...
The development of magnetic photonic crystals (MPC) has been a rapidly evolving research area since the late 1990s. Magneto-optic (MO) materials and the techniques for their characterization have also continually undergone functional and property-rel...
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Vision has been shown to influence body posture. The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlations between visual acuity and body postural control both in a standing and seated position. This cohort study included 37 patients examined usin...
A transparent and penetrable cranial window is essential for neuroimaging, transcranial injection and comprehensive understanding of cortical functions. For these applications, cranial windows made from glass coverslip, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), p...
An impedance approach has been implemented to design truncated 1D photonic crystals, sustaining optical surface modes, with any predetermined wavelength and wavevector. The implementation is realized as a free Windows program that calculates both the...
This study investigated the relationship between variations in the atmospheric boundary layer height (ABLH) and typhoons over the Northwest Pacific using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) data during the local summer ty...
We investigate the plasmonic behavior of a fractal photonic crystal fiber, with Sierpinski-like circular cross-section, and its potential applications for refractive index sensing and multiband polarization filters. Numerical results were obtained us...
A cloud property retrieved from multispectral imagers having spectral channels in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) and/or midwave infrared (MWIR) is the cloud effective particle radius (CER), a radiatively relevant weighting of the cloud particle size d...
The seawater refractive index is an essential parameter in ocean observation, making its high-precision measurement necessary. This can be effectively achieved using a position-sensitive detector-based measurement system. However, in the actual measu...
A potassium bromide (KBr) material, which has been widely used as the key element in Fourier spectrometers and as the output window of the IR-lasers, was studied via applying carbon nanotubes in order to modify the potassium bromide surface. The lase...
An analogy of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) based on all-dielectric metamaterial is theoretically demonstrated in this paper. The U-shaped Silicon-based metamaterial unit cell comprises a dipole antenna supported by one horizontal na...
In this paper, we design a multifunctional micro-nano device with a hybrid metamaterial-waveguide system, which leads to a triple plasmon-induced transparency (PIT). The formation mechanisms of the three transparent peaks have their own unique charac...
Optical microresonators supporting whispering-gallery modes (WGMs) have become a versatile platform for achieving electromagnetically induced transparency-like (EIT-like) phenomena. We theoretically and experimentally demonstrated the tunable coupled...
A femtosecond laser serves as an excellent tool for efficiently fabricating large-area anti-reflective microhole arrays on infrared windows. The impact of the arrangement of the microholes during processing on final performance, however, remains uncl...
High-speed turbulence induces significant aero-optical effects that severely disrupt the functionality of imaging systems of hypersonic vehicles. In this study, the aero-optical correction of various jet cooling modes is investigated using a Terminal...
In nature, the wavy ocean surface is a common polarizer, which can change the polarization state of incident light by refraction and reflection and form a new polarization pattern different from the atmosphere. In this paper, we establish the polariz...
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