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Appl Spectrosc
March 2025
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA.
Confocal Raman microscopy was applied to detect structural change within individual particles of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) following chemical and electrochemical processing steps that aimed to facilitate material decomposition. A high numerical aperture (NA) oil-immersion objective enabled depth-profiling through the near surface region (20 μm-40 μm) of irregularly shaped particles with an axial spatial resolution < 2 μm estimated from measurements of instrument detection efficiency profiles. Changes in vibrational bands sensitive to polyethylene crystallinity were evident following treatments and linked to the release of low molecular weight compounds present as additives and products of processing.
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March 2025
College of Mechanics and Safety Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan, China.
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) offers significant advantages for single-molecule detection. However, stochastic molecular motion makes it challenging to consistently capture signals from single-molecule binding events, particularly in complex environments. Herein, we propose a novel SERS system via the pore nanoconfinement effect of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to achieve reliable single-molecule detection.
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February 2025
Faculty of Material Sciences, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, China.
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is a powerful analytical technique for the determination of analytes with the advantages of sensitivity, portability, and simplicity, able to provide structural information for the identification of compounds. However, when it comes to the analysis of complex samples, matrix components may interfere with the analyte quantification. To overcome this shortcoming, a number of approaches have been proposed, such as extraction techniques.
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February 2025
Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, V. le delle Scienze ed. 4, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
This study investigates the functionalization of a poplar biochar (PB), obtained by high-temperature pyrolysis, under oxidative conditions typically used in organic synthesis. In particular, concentrated nitric acid, a sulfonitric mixture and a piranha mixture were applied as oxidants at different temperatures and reaction times. In order to assess the outcome of the reaction conditions on the characteristics of the resultant products, these were characterized by a combination of imaging (SEM), spectroscopic (ATR-FTIR, RAMAN) and FFC-NMR relaxometric techniques.
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March 2025
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Two-dimensional (2D) metals are appealing for many emergent phenomena and have recently attracted research interests. Unlike the widely studied 2D van der Waals (vdW) layered materials, 2D metals are extremely challenging to achieve, because they are thermodynamically unstable. Here we develop a vdW squeezing method to realize diverse 2D metals (including Bi, Ga, In, Sn and Pb) at the ångström thickness limit.
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