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Aleksandra Percin, ?eljka Zgorelec, Tomislav Kara?ija, Ivica Kisic, Nikolina ?upan and Ivana ?estak
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Marcelo Chan Fu Wei, Ricardo Canal Filho, Tiago Rodrigues Tavares, José Paulo Molin and Afrânio Márcio Corrêa Vieira
To obtain a better performance when modeling soil spectral data for attribute prediction, researchers frequently resort to data pretreatment, aiming to reduce noise and highlight the spectral features. Even with the awareness of the existence of dimensio...
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Lance D. Yarbrough, Rian A. Engle and Greg Easson
The Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian Age) Smackover Formation is a significant source for hydrocarbon production in southwest Alabama. Brooklyn Field is in southeast Conecuh County, Alabama, and has been a major producer of oil and natural gas for the state. Th...
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Sung-Min Kim and Yosoon Choi
It is necessary to investigate the contamination of beach sands to ensure water safety, as they may contain potentially toxic trace elements. Tourists, oil spills, or replenishing sands can cause beach sand contamination. In this study, heavy metal conta...
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Toshiyuki Nishiyama, Christoph Bostedt, Ken R. Ferguson, Christopher Hutchison, Kiyonobu Nagaya, Hironobu Fukuzawa, Koji Motomura, Shin-ichi Wada, Tsukasa Sakai, Kenji Matsunami, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Tetsuya Tachibana, Yuta Ito, Weiqing Xu, Subhendu Mondal, Takayuki Umemoto, Catalin Miron, Christophe Nicolas, Takashi Kameshima, Yasumasa Joti, Kensuke Tono, Takaki Hatsui, Makina Yabashi and Kiyoshi Uedaadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) deliver ultrashort coherent laser pulses in the X-ray spectral regime, enabling novel investigations into the structure of individual nanoscale samples. In this work, we demonstrate how single-shot small-angle X-ray sca...
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Rafael Mateus Alves, Francisco Guilhien Gomes-Junior, Abimael dos Santos Carmo-Filho, Glória de Freitas Rocha Ribeiro, Carlos Henrique Queiroz Rego, Fernando Henrique Iost-Filho and Pedro Takao Yamamoto
Seed treatment with micronutrients is a crucial strategy for providing early seedling supply during development, and is commonly employed in soybean cultivation. However, responses to micronutrient treatment may vary based on seed vigor levels. Therefore...
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Fernando Sánchez-Lara, Eduardo Manzanares-Acuña, Valentín Badillo-Almaraz, Rosalinda Gutiérrez-Hernández, Karol Karla García-Aguirre, María Elena Vargas-Díaz, Álvaro Omar Hernández-Rangel, Karla Mariela Hernández-Sánchez and Martha Celia Escobar-León
The use of plants has grown constantly worldwide, being a rich source of compounds that serve as established treatments for various diseases and conditions. This paper discusses the elemental composition and the level of environmental risk of heavy metal...
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Guilherme A. Pedrão, Karen B. Costa, Felipe A. L. Toledo, Mariana O. Tomazella and Luigi Jovane
Element and mineral associations are fundamental parameters for palaeoceanographical reconstructions but laboratory methodologies are expensive, time-consuming and need a lot of material. Here, we investigate the quality and reliability of XRF measuremen...
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Md Nurunnabi Mondal, Keiji Horikawa, Osamu Seki, Katsuya Nejigaki, Hideki Minami, Masafumi Murayama and Yusuke Okazaki
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core scanner elemental count data are useful for high-resolution paleoceanographic studies. However, because several factors, such as changes in physical core properties, significantly affect element count intensities, the approp...
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Eniko Bitay, Irina Kacsó, Claudiu Tanaselia, Dana Toloman, Gheorghe Borodi, Szilamér-Péter Pánczél, Zsombor Kisfaludi-Bak and Erzsébet Veress
Iron slag samples unearthed from archaeological sites lying on the Eastern limes sector of Roman Dacia (the Brâncovenesti and Calugareni auxiliary forts and the Vatava watchtower) were studied in order to assess the probability of local iron working (sme...
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Richard R. Hark, Chandra S. Throckmorton, Russell S. Harmon, John R. Plumer, Karen A. Harmon, J. Bruce Harrison, Jan M. H. Hendrickx and Jay L. Clausen
Chemical analysis of soil samples using handheld spectroscopic instruments was performed to investigate if classification accuracy is enhanced through multianalyzer data fusion.
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Jichao Liu, Cheng Wang, Peiyu Zhang, Min Gui, Lijia Tong and Bin Li
Aluminizing is a common protective coating for aeroengine turbine blades, but there is no method to accurately measure the aluminized thickness. X-ray fluorescence nondestructive testing technology is a method which can basically realize the measurement ...
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Sebastian Mas, Jesús Egido, Alberto Ortiz and Emilio Gonzalez-Parra
Product water that was used to prepare hemodialysis fluids from concentrate is purified to eliminate contaminants and to ensure treatment efficacy and patient safety. Thus, the dialysis fluid should be free of solid particles. Ultrafilters are used to re...
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Jangwon Suh, Hyeongyu Lee and Yosoon Choi
The use of portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) increases the rapidity and accuracy of soil contamination mapping, respectively. In practice, it is often necessary to repeat the soil con...
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Walter Giurlani, Massimo Innocenti and Alessandro Lavacchi
Measuring the thickness and the composition of precious metal thin films is a challenging task. Currently, the available techniques for thickness measurements are either destructive or need heavy assumptions on the nature of the sample, relying on inform...
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Andrea Bloise and Domenico Miriello
An innovative and, as yet, untested approach is to analyze serpentinite and metabasite rocks containing asbestos using a portable multi-analytical device, which combines portable digital microscopy (p-DM), portable X-ray Fluorescence (p-XRF) and portable...
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Ana Cristina Pinto Silva, Keyla Thayrinne Zoppi Coimbra, Levi Wellington Rezende Filho, Gustavo Pessin and Rosa Elvira Correa-Pabón
Currently, most mining companies conduct chemical analyses by X-ray fluorescence performed in the laboratory to evaluate the quality of Fe ore, where the focus is mainly on the Fe content and the presence of impurities. However, this type of analysis req...
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Lifei Wei, Yangxi Zhang, Ziran Yuan, Zhengxiang Wang, Feng Yin and Liqin Cao
Soil total arsenic (TAs) contamination caused by human activities?such as mining, smelting, and agriculture?is a problem of global concern. Visible/near-infrared (VNIR), X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIB...
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Sergio Augusto Barcellos Lins, Giovanni Ettore Gigante, Roberto Cesareo, Stefano Ridolfi and Antonio Brunetti
Characterization of surfaces in multilayered structures is a requirement in many application areas. Such characterization should be nondestructive, and, in some cases, it must be performed in situ. This is the case of precious Cultural Heritage samples. ...
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Chuanxi Luo, Duanyi Wang, Jian Li and Jun He
This study focuses on unknown crystal precipitates from an asphalt mixture used in bridge deck pavement layers. X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy was used to analyze the composition and source of crystals in the asphalt mixture used in bridge deck pavement...
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