This article demonstrates that sunscreen products’ sun protection factor (SPF) can be determined using visible near-infrared spectroscopy (VisNIRS). This analytical technique offers the advantage of a ...

From 2007 to 2012, the annual global compound growth rate of the coating industry in GDP was 4.3%, with a revenue of 110 billion USD for 2012. 1 Growth has since been on the rise due to the demand ...

Infrared vibrational spectroscopy could enable the production of high-resolution maps of molecules inside live cells and cell organelles. A new study from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared instruments on the spiral galaxy NGC 628, producing the first ...

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Under the impact of big data and artificial intelligence, optical detection techniques based on single physical quantities can no longer meet the needs of acquiring multi-dimensional information in ...

Using optical techniques to assess blood sugar levels is a promising route to monitoring diabetes in patients, potentially allowing alternatives to invasive blood sampling techniques. Recent examples ...

A trio of papers provide new insight into the composition and evolution of the surface of Venus, hidden beneath its caustic, high temperature atmosphere. Utilizing imaging from orbit using multiple ...