In plants, genetic diversity is important for species adaptation in nature and for crop improvement through breeding. For decades, genetic diversity was measured at the nucleotide and gene level. With the abundance of whole genome sequences and chromosome level genome assemblies…
One of the main challenges on the creation of glass pieces in casting, is to obtain a surface of the glass as clean as possible, without adhering residues, or devitrification. In glass Sculptures where the surface is not flat, the polishing process becomes very complicated, and …
The degradation of polyester coatings of three different formulations on steel substrates were critically analysed using photo-acoustic fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (PA-FTIR), atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), focussed ion beam (FIB) a…
Soil structure influences many chemical, biological and physical processes and it is well established that organic carbon acts as a soil binding agent. However, the precise location of organic matter and carbon in relation to structural features within intact samples is unknown.…
The crystalline solid state is invaluable to both the pharmaceutical and fine chemical sectors. The advantages primarily relate to reducibility criteria required during processing of stable solid state materials and delivering purification, which is inherently performed by the c…
The age of Earth's inner core is one of the fundamental unanswered questions in deep Earth science. The timing of inner core nucleation is a hugely significant event in Earth’s evolution and has been the subject of intense debate. Some of the most recent theoretical estimates fo…
An important analysis in fluorescence spectroscopy is molecular dynamics, in particular, quantification of diffusion coefficient. In this research, we apply a convolutional neural network (CNN) to determine the diffusion coefficient of freely diffusing molecules. We construct th…