Faster tests reveal six fluoropolymer microplastics, including four rarely tracked types

Scientists around the world have been searching food, water and other environmental media for microplastics and for per- and ...
Frontiers

Bacterial cellulose scaffolds derived from brewing waste for cultivated meat applications

The negative externalities of conventional meat production are driving a search for sustainable alternative proteins. Cultivated meat (CM) is one such alternative, but its development is constrained ...
GitHub

Repository of materials and products properties and fire test data to improve fire modeling and fire investigation.

This project was supported in part by Award No. 2019-DU-BX-0018, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and ...
The Lancet

FTIR-based molecular fingerprinting for the rapid classification of dengue and chikungunya from human sera using machine learning: an observational study

aAdvanced Technology Development Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India bNano Bio Photonics Group, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India ...
C&EN

Automated Machine-Learning-Driven Analysis of Microplastics by TGA-FTIR for Enhanced Identification and Quantification

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Microplastics persist as ubiquitous environmental contaminants, and efficient methods ...
C&EN

Deep Learning for Reconstructing Low-Quality FTIR and Raman Spectra─A Case Study in Microplastic Analyses

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Herein we report on a deep-learning method for the removal of instrumental noise and ...
eLife

Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer

Recent omics analyses of human biofluids provide opportunities to probe selected species of biomolecules for disease diagnostics. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy investigates the full ...
Frontiers

BIM-Sim: Interactive Simulation of Broadband Imaging Using Mie Theory

Understanding the structure of a scattered electromagnetic (EM) field is critical to improving the imaging process. Mechanisms such as diffraction, scattering, and interference affect an image, ...
PNAS

Efficient denoising algorithms for large experimental datasets and their applications in Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

Every measurement is corrupted due to random fluctuations in the sample and the apparatus. Current efficient denoising algorithms require large matrix analysis, and become untractable even for ...