When ice melts into water, it happens quickly, with the transition from solid to liquid being immediate. However, very thin materials do not adhere to these rules. Instead, an unusual state between ...

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1 London Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, ON, Canada 2 Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada A predetermined workflow was ...

Evaporation is an endothermic process undertaken by all liquids. This physical state change occurs when surface molecules gain sufficient kinetic energy to overcome the enthalpy of vaporization. Such ...

Department of Chemistry and Physics, Jilin Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changchun, China Background: Siloxanes have been widely used in various products and have been detected ...

Scientists from the Shandong Academy of Sciences recently created a new approach for performing magnetic solid-phase extraction on trace triazine herbicides. A recent study led by Shandong Academy of ...

Solid phase manufacturing can create new custom metal alloys through an innovative process called solid phase alloying, researchers report. Metal scrap can be directly transformed and upgraded into ...

Solid-phase extraction (SPE) is the gold standard for sample preparation in chromatographic analysis. It is used to capture, clean, and concentrate samples while removing interfering compounds, ...