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2. Tailoring the thermal diffusivity of polyvinylidene fluoride via carbon source integration : a photothermal beam deflection studyMohanachandran Nair Sindhu Swapna, Dorota Korte, Sankaranarayana Iyer Sankararaman, 2023, original scientific article Keywords: cellulose, camphor soot, lignin, PVDF, photothermal techniques, beam deflection, hydroxyl groups Published in RUNG: 21.08.2023; Views: 1797; Downloads: 19 Full text (8,04 MB) This document has many files! More... |
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4. Improved photopyroelectric (PPE) configuration for thermal effusivity investigations of porous solidsCarmen Tripon, Mohanachandran Nair Sindhu Swapna, Nicoleta Cobirzan, Dorota Korte, Robert Gutt, Marcel Bojan, Mladen Franko, Dorin Dadarlat, 2023, original scientific article Keywords: photothermal techniques, photopyroelectric calorimetry, thermal effusivity, porous solids, building materials Published in RUNG: 12.04.2023; Views: 2441; Downloads: 30 Full text (3,75 MB) This document has many files! More... |
5. Towards a novel method for iron species determination in Antarctic sea iceHanna Budasheva, Arne Bratkič, Dorota Korte, Mladen Franko, 2021, published scientific conference contribution abstract Abstract: Sea-ice borne iron has been found to be an important factor controlling Southern Ocean phytoplankton growth [1]. Knowing the amount and chemical speciation of its labile fraction in sea ice would advance our understanding of the involved processes. Unfortunately, it is rather difficult to perform their measurement because of limited access to the Antarctic. Thus there is a strong need for the development of a quick, simple and reliable technique for determination of iron and its speciation in sea-ice that ensures also low enough limits of detection. Recently, diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) have been widely used as passive samplers for collecting time-averaged data on the concentrations of transition metals in different media [2]. DGTs are further coupled to an analytical technique that in case of detecting metals in passive sampler films primarily requires their extraction [3], which may potentially lead to changes of the metal specification. In the present study, the beam deflection spectrometry (BDS) is coupled to DGT and used to determine the average concentration of iron in the sea ice samples collected at the Davis Station in the Antarctic. Such a combined technique has been already successfully applied for detecting labile iron species in freshwater sediments [4]. The obtained BDS data were validated by thermal lens spectrometry (TLS) and UV-Vis spectrophotometry (SPEC). The distribution of iron species over a given ice surface area using the DGT-BDS technique revealed total iron concentrations in the range of 0.6 – 5.3 μgL-1, whereas the Fe2+ content was found to be in the range of 0.1 – 1.5 μgL-1. The range taking into account all of the measurement points (5×4), the precision of a single measured point is 0.2 μgL-1. The calculated 24 h-average concentration of total Fe labile species in the ice by using BDS is 2.3 ± 0.5 μgL-1, which coincides with data obtained by SPEC (2.5 ± 0.4 μgL-1) and TLS (2.39 ± 0.02 μgL-1). Our results indicate that it is possible to develop a robust, contamination-resilient detection method for measuring the labile iron species concentration in the sea ice. In opposite to TLS and SPEC, BDS-DGT provides reliable information not only about the speciation of iron but also about their distribution on the ice surface. Keywords: beam deflection spectrometry, diffusive gradients, thin films, iron species, photothermal techniques, Antarctic sea ice Published in RUNG: 30.11.2021; Views: 3467; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
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8. Determination of Dissolved Iron Redox Species in Freshwater Sediment using DGT Technique Coupled to BDSHanna Budasheva, Aleksander Kravos, Dorota Korte, Arne Bratkič, Yue Gao, Mladen Franko, 2019, original scientific article Abstract: In this work we have developed a novel method for determination of iron redox species by the use of diffusive gradients in thin-film (DGT) technique coupled to photothermal beam deflection spectroscopy (BDS). The combination of both methods achieved low limit of detection (LOD) of 0.14 μM for Fe (II) ions. The total Fe concentration determined in the Vrtojbica river sediment (Slovenia, Rožna Dolina, 5000 Nova Gorica) was 49.3 μgL–1. The Fe (II) and Fe (III) concentra- tion amounted to 12.8 μgL–1 and 39.9 μgL–1, respectively. Such an approach opens new opportunities for monitoring the content of iron species in natural waters and sediments and provides highly sensitive chemical analysis and an accurate qualitative and quantitative characteristic of the materials under study. Keywords: Beam deflection spectroscopy, diffusive gradients in thin-film technique, iron redox species, photothermal techniques, sediment Published in RUNG: 26.02.2019; Views: 4661; Downloads: 117 Full text (452,58 KB) |
9. Optimization of DGT technique for determination of iron species in natural water and sediments by photothermal beam deflection spectroscopyHanna Budasheva, Arne Bratkič, Dorota Korte, Mladen Franko, 2018, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: beam deflection spectroscopy, diffusive gradients in thin-film technique, iron redox species, photothermal techniques, natural water, sediments Published in RUNG: 23.11.2018; Views: 4732; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
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