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[IEEE 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) - Honolulu, HI (2018.7.18-2018.7.21)] 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) - Non-invasive method to monitor molecular changes in human stratum corneum during acute barrier disruption using reflectance NIR spectroscopy
摘要： Stratum corneum is the outer most part of skin for barrier function. Disorder in stratum corneum is related with many skin diseases including acne, atopic dermatitis and psoriasis. In developed countries, about 20% of the population has disorder in the barrier function of stratum corneum. Adhesive tape stripping is a method to disrupt skin barrier function in studying disorder in stratum corneum. In this study, we obtained NIR (Near-Infrared) spectrum of human skin after tape stripping. Changes in skin spectra after barrier disruption were investigated through principal component analysis (PCA) of spectrum. PCA analysis revealed that peaks for –NH stretching and –CH vibration mainly contributed to the spectral variation caused by barrier disruption. Furthermore, second derivative of spectrum revealed that acute barrier disruption contributes to spectral changes in the region related with secondary structure of protein, lipid and water associated with lipid in stratum corneum. We demonstrated that acute barrier disruption affected features in NIR spectrum. These spectral changes revealed that acute barrier disruption affected keratin protein and ceramide in human stratum corneum. These results suggest that NIR spectroscopy can be used to monitor changes in filamentous network and lamellar structure in stratum corneum. NIR spectroscopy can provide non-invasive method to investigate skin disease related with barrier disruption by monitoring disturbance in protein and lipid structure in stratum corneum.
关键词： protein,barrier disruption,Stratum corneum,tape stripping,water,NIR spectroscopy,lipid
更新于2025-11-14 15:14:40
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High Temperature One-Step Synthesis of Efficient Nanostructured BiVO4 Photoanodes for Water Oxidation
摘要： Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) is a promising photoanode material for photoelectrochemical water splitting due to its well-suited valence band edge and comparatively narrow band gap. Herein, we provide first insights on the high temperature rapid and scalable synthesis of efficient nanostructured BiVO4 photoanodes for water oxidation. Nanostructured BiVO4 films with tunable optical density and porosity from 12 to 80% have been synthesized in few seconds by direct deposition of flame-made BiVO4 nanoparticle aerosols. The impact of BiVO4 film structural properties on the photooxidation performance has been systematically investigated by a set of electrochemical and physical characterizations indicating key directions for its morphological optimization. It was found that the BiVO4 water oxidization performance is mainly determined by two competitive factors, viz. accessible surface area and carrier conductivity through the grain boundaries. Optimization of these two factors increased the photocurrent densities by more than 3 times resulting in ca 1.5 mA cm-2 for sulphite oxidation and ca 1 mA cm-2 for water oxidation with a FeOOH\NiOOH co-catalyst at 1.0 V vs. the reversible hydrogen electrode (VRHE) under simulated one sun illumination. These findings provide novel insights into the structure-activity relationships of high temperature synthesized BiVO4 photoanodes for solar-powered water splitting, and introduce a scalable and low-cost approach for their rapid nanofabrication.
关键词： Flame Synthesis,Bismuth Vanadate,Scalable,One-Step,Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
更新于2025-10-22 19:40:53
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Plasmonic nickel nanoparticles decorated on to LaFeO3 photocathode for enhanced solar hydrogen generation
摘要： Plasmonic Ni nanoparticles were incorporated into LaFeO3 photocathode (LFO-Ni) to excite the surface plasmon resonances (SPR) for enhanced light harvesting for enhancing the photoelectrochemical (PEC) hydrogen evolution reaction. The nanostructured LFO photocathode was prepared by spray pyrolysis method and Ni nanoparticles were incorporated on to the photocathode by spin coating technique. The LFO-Ni photocathode demonstrated strong optical absorption and higher current density where the untreated LFO film exhibited a maximum photocurrent of 0.036 mA/cm2 at 0.6 V vs RHE, and when incorporating 2.84 mmol Ni nanoparticles the photocurrent density reached a maximum of 0.066 mA/cm2 at 0.6 V vs RHE due to the SPR effect. This subsequently led to enhanced hydrogen production, where more than double (2.64 times) the amount of hydrogen was generated compared to the untreated LFO photocathode. Ni nanoparticles were modelled using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) analysis and the results showed optimal particle size in the range of 70e100 nm for Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) enhancement.
关键词： LaFeO3,Finite difference time domain,Surface plasmon resonance,Ni nanoparticle,Photocathode,Photoelectrochemical water splitting
更新于2025-10-22 19:40:53
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Gold doping induced strong enhancement of carbon quantum dots fluorescence and oxygen evolution reaction catalytic activity of amorphous cobalt hydroxide
摘要： Gold doping induced strong enhancement of carbon quantum dots fluorescence and oxygen evolution reaction catalytic activity of amorphous cobalt hydroxide. Water splitting using electrocatalysts is expected to provide an alternative green energy source to meet increasing energy demands as well as addressing environmental concerns related to fossil fuels. Herein, we report one-step synthesis of sulfur, nitrogen and Au-doped carbon quantum dots (Au-SCQDs) and strong enhancement of fluorescence intensity and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalytic activity of amorphous Co(OH)2 nanoparticles compared to pure Co(OH)2 as well as commercial RuO2 and Pt/C catalysts. Au doping into sulfur and nitrogen co-doped CQDs showed over seventy times enhanced fluorescence. OER studies of amorphous-Co(OH)2 incorporated Au-SCQDs produced current density of 178 mA cm?2 at the applied potential of 2.07 V whereas un-doped Co(OH)2 showed current density of 59 mA cm?2. To produce geometric current density of 10 mA cm?2, amorphous Co(OH)2-Au-SCQDs (CSA) required 388–456 mV overpotential depending on the Au ion concentration used for preparing the Au-SCQDs, which is equal to or lower than overpotential required by commercial electrocatalysts. The strongly enhanced OER activity of Co(OH)2-Au-SCQDs (CSA) was attributed to the presence of electronegative metallic conducting Au atoms along with the high catalytic surface area of amorphous Co(OH)2. The present studies demonstrate a new method of exploiting amorphous Co(OH)2NPs electrocatalysts that could provide more catalytically active sites by integrating an electronegative conducting Au atom doped SCQDs matrix.
关键词： amorphous cobalt hydroxide,fluorescence,water splitting,Gold doping,carbon quantum dots,oxygen evolution reaction,electrocatalysts
更新于2025-10-22 19:40:53
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Surface-to-volume ratio drives photoelelectron injection from nanoscale gold into electrolyte
摘要： Hot charge carriers from plasmonic nanomaterials currently receive increased attention due to their promising potential in important applications such as solar water splitting. While a number of important contributions were made on plasmonic charge carrier generation and their transfer into the metal’s surrounding in the last decades, the local origin of those carriers is still unclear. With our study employing a nanoscaled bicontinous network of nanoporous gold, we take a comprehensive look at both subtopics in one approach and give unprecedented insights into the physical mechanisms controlling the broadband optical absorption and the generation and injection of hot electrons into an adjacent electrolyte where they enhance electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. This absorption behavior is very different from the well-known localized surface plasmon resonance effects observed in metallic nanoparticles. For small ligament sizes the plasmon decay in our network is strongly enhanced via surface collisions of electrons. These surface collisions are responsible for the energy transfer to the carriers, thus, the creation of hot electrons from a broad spectrum of photon energies. As we reduce the gold ligament sizes below 30 nm, we demonstrate an occurring transition from absorption that is purely exciting 5d-electrons from deep below the Fermi level to an absorption which significantly excites “free” 6sp-electrons to be emitted. We differentiate these processes via assessing the internal quantum efficiency of the gold network photoelectrode as a function of the feature size providing a size-dependent understanding of the hot electron generation and injection processes in nanoscale plasmonic systems. We demonstrate that the surface effect - compared to the volume effect – becomes dominant and leads to significantly improved efficiencies. The most important fact to recognize is that in the surface photoeffect presented here, absorption and electron transfer are both part of the same quantum mechanical event.
关键词： Hot electron,Photoemission,Water splitting,Hydrogen evolution,Carrier injection,Surface damping,Nanoporous Au
更新于2025-10-22 19:40:53
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An assessment of semi-analytical models based on the absorption coefficient in retrieving the chlorophyll-a concentration from a reservoir
摘要： Monitoring chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentrations in inland waters is crucial for water quality management, since Chl-a is a proxy for phytoplankton biomass and, thus, for ecological health of a water environment. Chl-a concentration can be retrieved through the inherent optical properties (IOPs) of a water system, which, in turn, can be remotely sensed obtained. Quasi-analytical algorithm (QAA), originally developed for ocean waters, can also retrieve IOPs for inland waters after re-parameterizations. This study is aimed at assessing the performance of sixteen schemes composed by QAA original and re-parameterized versions followed by models that use absorption coefficients as inputs for estimating Chl-a concentration in Ibitinga reservoir, located at Tietê River cascading system, S?o Paulo State, Brazil. It was verified that only QAAV5 based schemes were able to obtain reasonable estimates for image data and that by four models tested presented similar and acceptable results for QAAV5 outputs. The best model were applied to a Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) image. Light absorption in the reservoir showed to be dominated by colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), and wide spatial and temporal variability of optical and water quality properties was observed.
关键词： water quality monitoring,satellite data.,Trophic status,inland water
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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A comparison of water photo-oxidation and photo-reduction using photoelectrodes surface-modified by deposition of co-catalysts: Insights from photo-electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
摘要： The purpose of this research paper is to highlight the similarities in the kinetic treatment between water photo-oxidation into molecular oxygen and water photo-reduction into molecular hydrogen, using photoelectrodes surface modified by deposition of co-catalysts. Photo-anodes made of TiO2 nanorods surface-covered by crystals of cobalt Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework (ZIF-67), and photo-cathodes made of Rh:SrTiO3 particles surface-modified by adsorption of molecules of trisdioximate hexa-chlorine cobalt (II) clathrochelate (Co(Cl2Gm)3(BCH3)2), have been prepared and used for water photo-oxidation and photo-reduction experiments, respectively. Both photoelectrodes have been characterized by SEM and cyclic voltammetry under illumination conditions. Charge transfer mechanisms have been investigated by photo-electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (PEIS). It is shown that for both systems, the presence of a co-catalyst increases the charge transfer kinetics, and that the trapping resistance is larger than the charge transfer resistance, at any operating potential.
关键词： Water photo-oxidation,Titanium dioxide nanorods,Strontium titanate,Water photo-reduction,ZIF-67 MOF
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Changes in the IR Spectra of Drinking Water, Melt Water from Snow, and Heavy Water Irradiated by a Nanosecond Electron Beam
摘要： The absorption spectra of drinking water, melt water from snow, and heavy water are studied during irradiation by a nanosecond electron beam. With repeated irradiation of water, a change in the absorption spectrum of the substance was observed. The analysis of water absorption spectra in the IR region shows differences between the absorption spectra of irradiated and nonirradiated water.
关键词： water conductivity,water absorption spectrum in the infrared region,nanosecond electron beam
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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[IEEE 2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Ocean (OTO) - Kobe, Japan (2018.5.28-2018.5.31)] 2018 OCEANS - MTS/IEEE Kobe Techno-Oceans (OTO) - A Novel Approach to Underwater De-Scattering Based on Sparse and Low-Rank Matrix Decomposition
摘要： The images captured in turbid water suffer from severe visual degradation due to the dramatic scattering effects caused by abundant large suspended particles. This paper propose a novel underwater image de-scattering approach with low complexity, which can separate the scattering component from the image by using the sparse and low-rank matrix decomposition. The experimental results show that the proposed approach can enhance the global image contrast effectively. Additionally, this approach does not require specialized hardware or prior knowledge about the underwater environment; it is suitable for the underwater imaging system in real time.
关键词： turbid water,low-rank matrix decomposition,de-scattering,underwater image
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Photoactive Gel for Assisted Cleaning during Olive Mill Wastewater Membrane Microfiltration
摘要： A photoactive gel has been fabricated on the surface of polyethylene membranes for enhancing the fouling resistance during olive mill wastewater treatment. Light and pH responsive materials have been introduced in the membrane surface through the build up of a layer-by-layer pattern, which is formed by photocatalytic nanoparticles and ionic polyelectrolytes. The best working conditions to contrast foulants adsorption have been explored and identified. Repulsive interfacial forces and assisted transfer of foulants to catalytic sites have been envisaged as crucial factors for contrasting the decline of the flux during microfiltration. Tests in submerged configuration have been implemented for six continuous hours under irradiation at two different pH conditions. As a result, a worthy efficiency of the photoactive gel has been reached when suitable chemical microenvironments have been generated along the shell side of the membranes. No additional chemical reagents or expensive back-flushing procedures have been necessary to further clean the membranes; rather, fast and reversible pH switches have been enough to remove residues, thereby preserving the integrity of the layer-by-layer (LBL) complex onto the membrane surface.
关键词： submerged microfiltration,layer-by-layer,titanium oxide nanoparticles,water treatment,self-cleaning
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52