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An effective feature extraction method for olive peacock eye leaf disease classification
Early diagnosis of plant diseases is one of the key elements determining plant productivity. The productivity and quality of plants are significantly...
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Study on the deformation and fracture of epoxy monoliths through mechanical tensile and compressive tests and X-ray CT imaging
As porous polymer materials with continuous epoxy skeletons and pores, epoxy monoliths are used as column fillers in HPLC, separators in lithium-ion...
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Insight into continuous glucose monitoring: from medical basics to commercialized devices
According to the latest statistics, more than 537 million people around the world struggle with diabetes and its adverse consequences. As well as...
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Artificial melanin particles: new building blocks for biomimetic structural coloration
Melanin, a black component of human hair, plays an important role in bright structural colorations in nature. For example, the beautiful and highly...
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Fundamentals and Applications of Optically Active Melanin-Based Materials
Melanin is a group of ubiquitous biological pigments. It has excellent photonic properties such as broadband light absorption and high refractive...
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Flaxseed mucilage/calcium phosphate composites as bioactive material for bone tissue regeneration
Biocompatible polymers are attractive material for the manufacturing of surgical implants which break down in vivo without the necessity for a...
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Potential of Herbal Drugs for Treatment of Tuberculosis
Worldwide, TB is estimated as the 13th leading cause of death and the second leading infectious disease after COVID-19. In 2020, an estimated...
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Anion Sensing by Metal-Based Receptors
Metal-based receptors are an important and expanding class of molecules in anion sensing. This review describes the subject with specific focus on...
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Nanoceria and Hypoxia: Promises and Challenges
High altitude sickness, particularly, the effects of low pO2 in the atmosphere above 5000 m altitude, present great difficulties for human...
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Potential of Herbal Drug Delivery in Treating Malaria
Globally, an estimated 17 million people are believed to die every year due to malaria, and Africa is reported to be the worst affected country in...
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Biotechnological Tools for Disease Diagnostic
Plant diseases affect crop productivity and lead to economic deficits all around the world. A number of pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and...
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Group 18
This chapter covers the nonradioactive elements of Group 18 (He to Xe), now called the noble gases. Many properties of these elements are tabulated....
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Spectroscopic Characterization of Organometallic Centers on Insulator Single Crystal Surfaces:From Metal Carbonyls to Ziegler--Natta Catalysts
A detailed knowledge of the microscopic properties is one of the prerequisites for an understanding of heterogeneous catalysts. A strategy which...
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Spectra, Energy Levels and Energy Transfer in High Symmetry Lanthanide Compounds
The Ln3+ ion is situated at a site of octahedral symmetry in crystals of the lanthanide elpasolites, M2ALnX6. The syntheses and crystal structures of...
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Development of structural colored cotton fabric via the layer-by-layer electrostatic self-assembling of SiO2 nanoparticles
SiO 2 nanoparticles were synthesized by the Stober method. Their diameters were finely tuned from 250 to 580 nm by varying the NH 3 ·H 2 O and tetraethyl...
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Designing Eating and Drinking Experiences
Although experiences are personal and subjective, researchers can investigate them by observing people’s expressions and behavior. This permits to...
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Introduction to Transition Metals
For these metals, the number of valence electrons, the various oxidation states, and their colors in water are described. The typical ligands (Lewis...
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Self-assembled bright luminescent hierarchical materials from a tripodal benzoate antenna and heptadentate Eu(III) and Tb(III) cyclen complexes
The europium heptadentate coordinatively unsaturated (Eu(III)) and the terbium (Tb(III)) 1,4,7,10- tetraazacyclododecane (cyclen) complexes 1 and 2 ...
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Discovery, properties and applications of tungsten and its inorganic compounds
After a historical excursus, the basic properties of tungsten are summarized, followed by selected classes of inorganic compounds (tungsten halides...
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Solar UV damage to cellular DNA: from mechanisms to biological effects
Solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation generates bulky photodimers at di-pyrimidine sites that pose stress to cells and organisms by hindering DNA...