Publications by authors named "Xiaowen Shu"

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  • The study investigates how transportation and emissions affect aerosol production in Australia, focusing on a measurement campaign at Mission Beach in spring 2016.
  • A notable aerosol pollution event in early October showed increased black carbon levels and new nucleation-mode aerosols influenced by meteorological conditions.
  • The results suggest that aerosol properties at the Great Barrier Reef are primarily affected by continental transport and biomass-burning sources rather than local sea breeze interactions.*
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Uranyl ion exists at trace levels in the environment and can cause severe adverse effects to human health. Therefore, it is desirable to develop analytical methods that can determine the trace uranyl ion in aqueous medium. We report here a new method using a thermo-responsive polymeric fluorescent sensor.

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Tunable diode-laser absorption spectroscopy techniques have been widely used in many regions, such as environmental monitoring and detection of industrial process, due to their high spectral resolution, high sensitivity, fast time response and nonintrusive character. It's important to obtain absorbance curve and integrated absorbance for gas concentration inversion and line strength calibration in direct-absorption spectroscopy techniques. An approach was taken to process the laser direct absorption spectrum.

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HCL, with the character of strong erosion and toxicity, is a kind of chemical material of vital importance. So measuring the HCL in-situ can not only optimize its production process, but also be necessary to reduce the environment pollution. TDLAS (tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy) technology, and owning the advantage of the tunability and narrow line width of the diode laser, this method can relatively easily select the absorption line of the detected gas without the interference from other gas, thus making the rapid and accurate HCL measurement possible.

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