Peer-reviewed Articles

UV-Vis-NIR can be used to understand how ancient buildings were constructed. Here, a UV-Vis-NIR and EDXRF spectrophotometer were used to analyze glazed tiles that comprised a historical site built in Ancient China.

Detecting metal elements in liquid samples cannot be done efficiently by only using LIBS, but when the technique is combined with appropriate membrane materials, rapid analysis of solution samples can be realized.

Various chemometric approaches, including four discriminant models (ELM, TLBO–ELM, KELM, and TLBO–KELM), were used to detect shrimp freshness based on near-infrared hyperspectral imaging.

To ensure the stable operation of fuel plant desulfurization systems, it is critical to maintain the content of thiosulfate within an appropriate range. This new method for thiosulfate determination is highly sensitive and easy to perform.

This new terahertz method provides a theoretical reference for studying the relationship between biomolecules and water.

A deep learning model for predicting the size-dependent Raman shift of semiconductor nanomaterials was demonstrated and achieved via multi-layer perceptron.

The relationship between leaf nitrogen content (LNC) and hyperspectral remote sensing imagery (HYP) was determined to construct an estimation model of the LNC of drip-irrigated sugar beets, to enable real-time monitoring of sugar beet growth and nitrogen management in arid areas.

In this review, we show a wide range of examples of the expanding use of multivariate analysis (MVA) in pharmaceutical manufacturing and control. MVA is being used to resolve numerous analytical challenges, such as overcoming matrix effects, extracting reliable data from dynamic matrices, and more.

The significance of the smaller spectral region of the Raman spectrum, defined as the “fingerprint in the fingerprint” region, cannot be overstated when it comes to active pharmaceutical ingredient identity testing (API).

In combination with attenuated total reflectance (ATR), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy can be used to classify different moss species.

An artificial neural network was combined with LIBS to provide a rapid and accurate coal-rock recognition method for unmanned coal mining.

The purpose of this work is to achieve rapid and nondestructive determination of tilapia fillets storage time associated with its freshness. Here, we investigated the potential of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) combined with a convolutional neural network (CNN) in the visible and near-infrared region (vis-NIR or VNIR, 397−1003 nm) and the shortwave near-infrared region (SWNIR or SWIR, 935−1720 nm) for determining tilapia fillets freshness.

A new method based on singular value decomposition (SVD) applied to the denoising of the time-resolved spectral matrix (TRSM) made it possible to obtain kinetics data of the fluorescence band parameters of a 3-aminophthalimide spectrum in acetonitrile.

By using green synthesized AgNPs modified by chitosan and organic acid, a simple, cost-effective, and highly selective onsite colorimetric detection method for Pd2+ and Hg2+ ions was developed.

A kinetic fluorimetric method was established for the determination of formaldehyde in synthetic water samples and laundry water by potassium bromate oxidation of rhodamine B.

This study examines whether the computed spectrum can be used to accurately identify amino acids, by comparing the computer spectrum to the measured spectrum of a biological sample.

The possible energy transfer modes between Yb3+ and Tm3+ ions were analyzed.

The relationship between the complexation amount of thorium (Th) and Suwannee River fulvic acid (SRFA) and the changes in Th concentration and pH were studied using differential spectroscopy and 3D excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy (3D EEM).

Studying the experimental absorption spectra of different proportions co-crystallized mixtures and 1:1 physical mixture of L-thr and L-allo-thr, it was found that the characteristic peaks of the physical mixture include the characteristic peaks of the two diastereomers in the THz band, while amino acid co-crystallized mixtures formed their own characteristic peaks depending on the proportion.

In this study, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy was used to analyze heavy metals in five traditional Mongolian medicines, and the results were compared to those obtained using ICP-MS.

A model based on similarity regularized nonnegative matrix factorization (SRNMF) can be used in space exploration and national security applications to exploit the spatial information in an image of a space target.

This study shows that surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) of serum can provide an experimental basis for diagnosing leukemia in patients.

Portable NIR spectroscopy, combined with discrimination analysis (PLS-DA), can be used to rapidly and accurately identify five very similar wood species of the Cinnamomum genus.

We propose a theoretical basis using vis-NIR spectroscopy for the development of an online nondestructive testing system for the quality of Nanguo pear fruit.

A simple colorimetric and fluorescent dual-channel chemosensor was designed and synthesized to identify Hg2+ in an aqueous solution with demonstrated high selectivity and sensitivity.

This study examines the fluorescence enhancement effects of forsythoside E, one of metabolites of Forsythia suspensa, on human serum albumin (HSA) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) under simulated physiological conditions.

Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy reveals much about the structure-induced energy transfer mechanisms of phycobilisomes, the light-harvesting antenna in cyanobacteria.

The “fingerprint in the fingerprint” region is key for active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) identity testing. We explain why.

Accurate determination of the elemental composition of nickel-based alloys is essential, given their use in high-performance equipment. This XRF technique enables rapid and nondestructive detection, as an alternative to existing approaches.

This study provides theoretical and technical support for implementing online detection of cement raw meal components using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy.