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This overview explores time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance (TD-NMR) relaxometry as a rapid, non-invasive analyti cal tool for evaluating packaged food products. While traditional invasive methods are often laborious and time-consuming, TD-NMR harnesses the radio-frequency transparency of most packaging ...
Intelligent food packaging can help reduce food waste by providing consumers real-time information about product freshness. They can be produced using natural pigments with pH-dependent color changes, which makes them promising candidates for colorimetric sensors. This study reports the development,&#...
Electrochemical CO2 reduction to formate (HCOO-) represents an efficient strategy to mitigate CO2 emissions while producing value-added chemicals. However, the reaction typically requires high overpotential and suffers from low selectivity and current density. This work reports the development of Bi2O...
The extensive use of herbicides such as imazapic, from the imidazolinone class, raises environmental concerns due to its persistence and toxicity in ecosystems and subsequent crops. Enzymatic bioremediation emerges as a sustainable alterna tive for the mitigation of these contaminants. This ...
Foodloss remainsamajorchallengealongtheproductionchain.Plant-basedediblecoatingshaveemergedasaneffective, sustainablestrategytoextendshelflife.Starch-basedcoatingshavedesirableopticalproperties,buttheirhighhydrophilicitylimits performance. IncorporatingnaturaladditivesfromAmazondiversity, suchaslipidsandcellulosenanotechnologyderivatives, canenhance their functionality. Themaingoalwas todevelopedible coatings fromBrazilian flora...
Amid the intensification of extreme climatic events, the demand to transition from an economy reliant on fossil resources to sustainable alternatives has become critical, particularly in industrial processes that depend heavily on petroleum-derived products, such as conventional cutting fluids. In...
There is growing interest in usingMXene-basedmaterials for electronic and energy storage applications by integratingadvancedmicrofabricationtechniques. Inthiswork,we investigatethe femtosecondlasermicromachiningofTi3C2Tx MXenefilms toenable thedirect fabricationofmicrosupercapacitor(MSC)electrodeswithhighprecisionandminimal thermal damage.The influenceofpulseenergyandnumberofpuls...
This work investigates the adsorption of Mn2+ ions on hydrothermally synthe sized Nb2O5 nanoparticles obtained via an oxidant peroxo method, with par ticular emphasis on the role of functional groups present on the nanoparticle surface. Orthorhombic Nb2O5 was formed at a mild temperatur...
Avianinfluenzaviruses,particularlytheH5N1subtype,representa majorglobal threatduetotheirhightransmissibilityandmortalityrates.Rapid, low-cost, andreliabledetection is essential for controllingviral spread inboth avian and human populations. This work presents amicrofluidic electronic tongue composed of interdigitated electrodes functionalized with one-layer,&#...
CaFe2O4 is a p-type ferrite semiconductor of interest for photo-assisted environmental remediation due to its narrow band gap and high chemical stability. In this work, CaFe2O4 powders were synthesized via the Pechini polymeric precursor method and calcined be tween 550 and 850 ◦C ...