A rapid progress in the theoretical developments based on modulations of absorption cross section due to single and multiple scattering of an electron emitted from an inner shell by X-rays impinging on the target atom to understand the EXAFS and XANES in recent years and harnessing of the highly powerful synchrotron radiation source for the X-rays have bestowed immense capability on X-ray absor...

Low intensity ultrasound (approximately 10(-6) W cm-2) in the frequency range 0.5-6.0 MHz was employed to investigate the ultrasound absorption properties of doxorubicin (DOX) at several temperatures. At physiological temperatures, we found enhanced ultrasound absorption from DOX, and its closely related analogue daunorubicin (DNR), in the upper kilohertz frequency range. The findings do not co...

The capabilities and applicability of the radiotracer technique for methodological studies in hydride generation and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry are discussed and demonstrated by using several selected examples. It is shown that, for studying chemical and physico-chemical aspects of atomic absorption spectrometric methods, the radiotracer technique is superior to other techniq...

Reactive absorption — i.e., the absorption of gases in liquid solutions accompanied by chemical reactions — is an important industrial operation for the production of basic chemicals (e.g., sulfuric or nitric acid) and for the removal of harmful substances (e.g., H2S) from gas streams. In recent decades, this process has become especially important for the purification of gases to high purities...

Transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM) is a rapidly developing technique with the capability of nanoscale three dimensional (3D) real-space imaging. Combined with the wide range in energy tunability from synchrotron sources, TXM enables the retrieval of 3D microstructural information with elemental/chemical sensitivity that would otherwise be inaccessible. The differential absorption contrast abov...