Heptamethine based cyanines, namely 1,3,-trimethyl-2-(2-2[2-phenylsulfanyl-3-[2-(1,3,3-trimethyl-1,3,3-trithyl-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-ylidene)-ethylidene]cyclohex-1-enyl]vinyl)-3H-indolium chloride ( S1) and 2-[2-(2-chloro-[2-[1,1-dimethyl-7-sulfo-3-(4-sulfobutyl)-1,3-dihydro-benzo[e]indol-2-ylidene]-ethylidene]cyclopent-1-enyl]vinyl]-1,1-dimethyl-7-sulfo-3-(4-sulfobutyl)-1Hbenzo[e]indolium hydroxide, inner salt, triethylammonium salt ( S2), efficiently result in physical drying of an aqueous dispersion comprising a polyurethane binder. S2 possesses a water solubility of 40 g/L. A high-intensity NIR-LED emitting at 820 nm with an intensity of 1 W/cm 2 served as light source. The cyanine converted the light absorbed into heat by internal conversion needing less drying time compared to conventional drying. Water content after film formation showed less then 1%. In the second step, UV exposure with a LED emitting at 395 nm resulted in formation of semi-interpenetrating polymer networks by crosslinking of the multifunctional (meth)acrylate operating as reactive diluent. TPO-L served as effective UV-photoinitiator. Furthermore, the UV-exposure together with Norrish Type I and Type II photoinitator systems results in a very efficient bleaching of the green physical dried film. This contribution shows for the first time a new photonic hybrid technique describing successful replacement of an oven-based process by a photonic based step that generates heat needed for drying.

This paper presents an innovative method for enhance the comprehensibility of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), making it accessible to individuals without specialized clinical knowledge. Our approach entails predicting medical professionals’ impressions, identifying intricate medical terminol- ogy, and clarifying these complex terms. To achieve this, we fine-tuned GPT-3 for predicting doctors’ impressions and integrated the Chain Of Thought (COT) prompting technique to identify and elucidate intricate medical terms. The assessment was conducted using Rouge scores and cosine similarity scores. The outcomes reveal that our proposed approach yields a cosine similarity score surpassing 75, indicative of the model’s exceptional performance. The comparative analysis demonstrates the superiority of our approach concerning doctors’ impressions, detection of complex terminology, and provision of explanations. Furthermore, this work is pioneering in addressing and resolving intricate terminology in EHRs, marking a novel contribution to the field.

Silicon epitaxy is an essential building block in the manufacturing of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices. Accurate determination of epitaxial layer thickness is indispensable for a uniform and reproducible process. In this paper, we compare thickness values of the transition zone in silicon epitaxial wafers obtained by two of Semilab’s production-compatible electrical and optical characterization techniques: Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) reflectometry and spreading resistance profiling (SRP). We demonstrate a high correlation between transition zone thicknesses obtained from the optical modelling of FTIR reflectance spectra and SRP profiles. The dependance of transition zone thickness change on the high-temperature annealing steps is also examined. FTIR reflectometry thus offers a quick, contactless alternative for obtaining structural parameters of an epitaxial layer, and these values can be well matched to those given by SRP.

Magnetic nanoparticles have recently attracted attention for biochemical and medical applications like drug delivery and hyperthermia for a variety of reasons with most important being their stability, chemical compatibility, and suitable magnetic properties like moderate specific mass magnetization. Cobalt ferrites are a well-studied family of materials and the partial substitution of Fe 3+ cations by rare earth (RE) ones may be used to tune the magnetic properties. In the present work pure and substituted Co ferrite nanoparticles with nominal stoichiometry CoFe 2-xR xO 4 (R = Yb, Gd; x = 0.05, 0.1, 0.3) synthesized by the co-precipitation method are studied with 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy in order to determine the incorporation of RE ions in the spinel lattice. The fitting procedure was based on the standard spinel model using two sextets for the octahedral and the tetrahedral coordinated positions of Fe atoms. All isomer shift values were found within the typical range of high spin ferric ions while quadrupole splitting values strongly suggest that there is a substitution preference; RE ions replace iron ones in octahedral sites. The inversion parameter was found to decrease with RE content (lowest value about 0.534 for CoFe 1.90Yb 0.10O 4) and thermal treatment always results in changing the material towards normal spinel, while pure CoFe 2O 4 was inverse. Thermal treatment of substituted materials in ambient air at temperature range 1500-1700 K for 12 hours increase crystallite size and changes the degree of inversion.

Food touches every human and every other species in the world throughout daily life. Food is therefore the subject of extensive regulation nationally, internationally across trade agreements, and under some religious law as well. Nanotechnology has been applied to food since the late 20 th century with attendant implications for food quality, quantity, and distribution. Applications of nanotechnology impacting food “from field to fork” include: more effective formulation of fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides; nanosilver as an antibacterial in food handling and refrigeration; carbon nanotubes for secure and durable packaging Titanium dioxide to make food white, fluffy, and attractive to consumers; and nano-biosensors to detect temperature changes that might cause spoilage, thereby helping to prevent food loss. One nanoscale material in particular, Titanium Dioxide, has been subject to litigation and banned in Europe. By contrast, it is generally recognized as safe under USA laws, and has no specific federal limit if it consists of one percent or less of the total food involved. But, California’s assembly has also introduced legislation to ban this substance, and therefore the role of nanotechnology applied to food, shaping new laws and spawning litigation, is a hot new legal issue.

Plasmonic gratings provide an advantageous platform for fluorescence sensing due to their compatibility with functionalization techniques, imaging detection, and the potential for signal enhancement. Among traditional fluorescence detection methods, microscopes are commonly used tools. The interaction between dye fluorescence processes and the plasmonic modes of the grating strongly depends on the measurement configuration and is influenced by the dispersion and spectral characteristics of the plasmonic modes. In our study, we investigated the angular behavior of the fluorescence emission from ATTO700 dye by varying the collection angle using a standard optical microscope coupled with a spectrometer. Our results show a clear dependence of fluorescence emission in terms of spectral shape on the collection angle that can be attributed to plasmonic mode dispersion.

Photocatalytic coatings have the potential to contribute to the purification of water via an advanced oxidation process (AOP) [1]. A commonly used method for analyzing the mechanism of the photocatalytic performance of a given reactor type is to document the degradation behavior in a solution containing methylene blue. However, since methylene blue is rather unstable, the degradation results should be viewed critically. In this work, the degradation behavior of a test solution with methylene blue on quartz glass surfaces coated with photocatalytic titanium dioxide (TiO 2) of the anatase modification was investigated through a variety of different light sources. The coating was deposited by the reactive pulsed DC magnetron sputtering (MSIP-PVD) method described in [2], while the quartz glasses were coated with a 100 nm thick TiO 2 coating. The same glasses were used for all experiments with TiO 2. In the determination of the degradation rate, additional experiments were performed using pure quartz glass without any coating, which made it possible to examine the influence of different light sources on the degradation rate of methylene blue in general. Three different light sources, namely UV-A, UV-C, and simple fluorescent lamps were used in this study. The concentration of methylene blue was recorded by photo spectrometer in 10-minute increments throughout the experiment and the experiments were performed for 24 hours in all cases.

This work elucidates the control of integrating non-minimum phase system via series cascade scheme with fractional-order P.I. (Proportional–Integral) plus D (Derivative) controller. The traditional Internal Model Control (IMC) is adopted for inner loop controller design. The feedback D controller is synthesized with the outer loop process model, which shows the work’s universality. The outer loop controller is suggested in the IMC framework after accountability of fractional-filter and inverse response compensator. This combination is revealed to enhance performance without compromising the robustness. The Riemann sheet principle is explored to compute the stability of the suggested controller. The sensitivity analysis has asserted the robustness. More importantly, the optimal value of controller settings is achieved via the Teaching Learning Based Optimization (TLBO) algorithm. This TLBO algorithm uses an objective function that minimizes Integral Square Error (ISE). Two illustrative problems are utilized to examine the recommended control structure’s virtue.