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Taleb A, Dell'Aglio M, Gaudiuso R, Mele D, Dellino P, De Giacomo A. Self-Calibrated Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for the Quantitative Elemental Analysis of Suspended Volcanic Ash. Appl Spectrosc 2024:37028241241076. [PMID: 38529539 DOI: 10.1177/00037028241241076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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Real-time analysis of fine ash in volcanic plumes, which represent magma fragments expelled from the crater during explosive eruptions, is a valuable tool for volcano monitoring and hazard assessment. To obtain the chemical characterization of the juvenile pyroclastic material emitted in volcanic plumes, many analytical techniques can be used. Among them, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is the one that can most easily be adapted to advanced applications in extreme environments. In this paper, LIBS experiments based on self-calibrated approaches are used to determine the elemental composition of suspended volcanic ash. To simulate the conditions of dispersed volcanic ash in the atmosphere, different sizes of volcanic ash samples are suspended in the air by laser-induced shockwaves in a dedicated chamber, and a parametric study is carried out to establish the optimal experimental conditions for recording usable plasma emission spectra for each ash size. The quantitative analysis is performed using a self-calibrated analytical method, including calibration-free LIBS, which is based on the calculation of the spectral radiance of a uniform plasma in local thermodynamic equilibrium. The method accounts intrinsically for self-absorption since it modifies the intensity of spectral lines and thus leads to an underestimation of the elemental fraction. An intensity calibration of the spectra based on the measurements of Fe lines intensities was also used in this work to deduce the apparatus response from the spectrum itself and avoid the use of standard calibration lamps. Results demonstrate the potential of real-time measurements of elemental fractions in volcanic ash with good agreement with the literature composition.
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- Aya Taleb
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- CNR-IFN (National Research Council-Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies), C-O Physics Department, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
- CNR-IFN (National Research Council-Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies), C-O Physics Department, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Dell'Aglio M, Mallardi A, Gaudiuso R, Giacomo AD. Plasma Parameters During Nanoparticle-Enhanced Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (NELIBS) in the Presence of Nanoparticle-Protein Conjugates. Appl Spectrosc 2023; 77:1253-1263. [PMID: 37700694 DOI: 10.1177/00037028231200511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/14/2023]
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Nanoparticle-enhanced laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (NELIBS) is an optical emission technique based on the laser-induced plasma (LIP) on a sample after the deposition of plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) on its surface. The employment of the NPs allows an enhancement of the signal with respect to the one obtained with the conventional laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) enabling an extremely high sensitivity and very low limits of detection compared with the LIBS performance. Recently, NELIBS was used for monitoring the NP protein corona formation. As a matter of fact, the NPs in the presence of proteins adsorbed on the surface change their surface properties, therefore the sensing of protein corona formation was possible because of the strong dependence of NELIBS effects on the NP organization on the substrate, which in turn is deeply affected by the surface properties of the NPs. A correlation was found between NELIBS enhancement and the structure of the NP-protein conjugate in terms of protein content absorbed on the NP surface. An interesting question that was not yet exploited regards the role of LIP during the NELIBS when the NPs are covered with proteins. Since the presence of organic matter can strongly quench the LIP emission, the study of the LIP properties during protein corona sensing by NELIBS is of interest for two main reasons: (i) to understand whether the plasma parameters can vary in the presence of proteins adsorbed on the NP surface and (ii) to investigate how and if the plasma parameters themselves can influence the NELIBS processes. With this aim, the study of plasma parameters, i.e., electron densities and temperatures, during the sensing of NP protein corona by NELIBS is presented and discussed. The NPs used during these experiments were ultrapure gold NPs (AuNPs) produced by pulsed laser ablation in liquid, which are stable without any stabilizer. The human serum albumin protein is used to form AuNP-protein conjugates further deposited on a titanium target in NELIBS measurements. Dynamic light scattering, surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy, and laser Doppler electrophoresis for ζ-potential determination were employed to monitor the protein coverage of NP surface in the conjugate solutions before the NELIBS measurements.
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- Marcella Dell'Aglio
- CNR-IFN, Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, C/o University of Bari, Physics Department, Bari, Italy
- CSGI (Center for Colloid and Surface Science), Bari, Italy
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- CSGI (Center for Colloid and Surface Science), Bari, Italy
- CNR-IPCF, Institute for Physical and Chemical Processes, C/o University of Bari, Chemistry Department, Bari, Italy
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- CSGI (Center for Colloid and Surface Science), Bari, Italy
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- CNR-IFN, Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, C/o University of Bari, Physics Department, Bari, Italy
- CSGI (Center for Colloid and Surface Science), Bari, Italy
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Dell'Aglio M, Salajková Z, Mallardi A, Sportelli MC, Kaiser J, Cioffi N, De Giacomo A. Sensing nanoparticle-protein corona using nanoparticle enhanced Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy signal enhancement. Talanta 2021; 235:122741. [PMID: 34517609 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Recently nanoparticle enhanced Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (NELIBS) is getting a growing interest as an effective alternative method for improving the analytical performance of LIBS. On the other hand, the plasmonic effect during laser ablation can be used for a different task rather than elemental analysis. In this paper, the dependence of NELIBS emission signal enhancement on nanoparticle-protein solutions dried on a reference substrate (metallic titanium) was investigated. Two proteins were studied: Human Serum Albumin (HSA) and Cytochrome C (CytC). Both proteins have a strong affinity for the gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) due to the bonding between the single free exterior thiol (associated with a cysteine residue) and the gold surface to form a stable protein corona. Then, since the protein sizes are vastly different, a different number of protein units is needed to cover AuNP surface to form a protein layer. The NP-protein solution was dropped and dried onto the titanium substrate. Then the NELIBS signal enhancement of Ti emission lines was correlated to the solution characteristics as determined with Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) spectroscopy and Laser Doppler Electrophoresis (LDE) for ζ-potential determination. Moreover, the dried solutions were studied with TEM (Transmission Electron Microscopy) for the inspection of the inter-particle distance. The structural effect of the NP-protein conjugates on the NELIBS signal reveals that NELIBS can be used to determine the number of protein units required to form the nanoparticle-protein corona with good accuracy. Although the investigated NP-protein systems are simple cases in biological applications, this work demonstrates, for the first time, a different use of NELIBS that is beyond elemental analysis and it opens the way for sensing the nanoparticle protein corona.
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- Marcella Dell'Aglio
- CNR-NANOTEC, Institute of Nanotechnology, c/o Chemistry Department, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy; Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 656/123, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- CNR-IPCF, Institute for Chemical-Physical Processes, c/o Chemistry Department, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy.
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- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 656/123, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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- CNR-NANOTEC, Institute of Nanotechnology, c/o Chemistry Department, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy; Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy; CSGI (Center for Colloid and Surface Science), Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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Dell'Aglio M, Santagata A, Valenza G, De Stradis A, De Giacomo A. Study of the Effect of Water Pressure on Plasma and Cavitation Bubble Induced by Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquid of Silver and Missed Variations of Observable Nanoparticle Features. Chemphyschem 2017; 18:1165-1174. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201601231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2016] [Revised: 01/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- CNR-ISM, FLASH-IT Unit, Tito Scalo, C.da S. Loja-Zona Industriale-; 85050 Tito Scalo PZ Italy
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- University of Bari; Chemistry Department; Via Orabona 4 70125 Bari Italy
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- CNR-NANOTEC, Bari; Via Amendola 122/D- 70126 Bari Italy
- University of Bari; Chemistry Department; Via Orabona 4 70125 Bari Italy
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Mangini V, Dell'Aglio M, De Stradis A, De Giacomo A, De Pascale O, Natile G, Arnesano F. Amyloid transition of ubiquitin on silver nanoparticles produced by pulsed laser ablation in liquid as a function of stabilizer and single-point mutations. Chemistry 2014; 20:10745-51. [PMID: 25060114 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201402934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The interaction of nanoparticles with proteins has emerged as a key issue in addressing the problem of nanotoxicity. We investigated the interaction of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), produced by laser ablation with human ubiquitin (Ub), a protein essential for degradative processes in cells. The surface plasmon resonance peak of AgNPs indicates that Ub is rapidly adsorbed on the AgNP surface yielding a protein corona; the Ub-coated AgNPs then evolve into clusters held together by an amyloid form of the protein, as revealed by binding of thioflavin T fluorescent dye. Transthyretin, an inhibitor of amyloid-type aggregation, impedes aggregate formation and disrupts preformed AgNP clusters. In the presence of sodium citrate, a common stabilizer that confers an overall negative charge to the NPs, Ub is still adsorbed on the AgNP surface, but no clustering is observed. Ub mutants bearing a single mutation at one edge β strand (i.e. Glu16Val) or in loop (Glu18Val) behave in a radically different manner.
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- Vincenzo Mangini
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari "Aldo Moro" via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari (Italy)
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Gaudiuso R, Dell'Aglio M, De Pascale O, Loperfido S, Mangone A, De Giacomo A. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of archaeological findings with calibration-free inverse method: comparison with classical laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and conventional techniques. Anal Chim Acta 2014; 813:15-24. [PMID: 24528655 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2014.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2013] [Revised: 12/30/2013] [Accepted: 01/09/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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A modified version of the calibration-free (CF) method was applied to the analysis of a set of archaeological brooches made of various copper-based alloys and coming from the archaeological site of Egnatia (Apulia, Southern Italy). The developed methodology consists in determining the plasma temperature by reversing the set of equations employed in the usual CF algorithm, and it is thus referred to as "inverse method". The plasma temperature is determined for one certified standard, by using its known elemental composition as an input data, and then applied to the set of unknown samples to evaluate their composition in a CF mode. The feasibility of such an approach is demonstrated by comparing the results obtained with classical LIBS (drawing calibration lines with a series of matrix-matched certified standards) and with independent measurements performed with a conventional technique (LA-ICP-MS).
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- R Gaudiuso
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy; CNR-IMIP, Section of Bari, via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy.
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- CNR-IMIP, Section of Bari, via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- CNR-IMIP, Section of Bari, via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy; National Archaeological Museum of Egnatia, Str. Pr. Savelletri, Capitolo, 72015 Fasano (BR), Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy; CNR-IMIP, Section of Bari, via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy
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De Giacomo A, Dell'Aglio M, Santagata A, Gaudiuso R, De Pascale O, Wagener P, Messina GC, Compagnini G, Barcikowski S. Cavitation dynamics of laser ablation of bulk and wire-shaped metals in water during nanoparticles production. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp42649h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Dell'Aglio M, Gaudiuso R, ElRashedy R, De Pascale O, Palazzo G, De Giacomo A. Collinear double pulse laser ablation in water for the production of silver nanoparticles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:20868-75. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54194k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Dell'Aglio M, Gaudiuso R, Senesi GS, De Giacomo A, Zaccone C, Miano TM, De Pascale O. Monitoring of Cr, Cu, Pb, V and Zn in polluted soils by laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 13:1422-6. [PMID: 21416069 DOI: 10.1039/c0em00780c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a fast and multi-elemental analytical technique particularly suitable for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of heavy metals in solid samples, including environmental ones. Although LIBS is often recognised in the literature as a well-established analytical technique, results about quantitative analysis of elements in chemically complex matrices such as soils are quite contrasting. In this work, soil samples of various origins have been analyzed by LIBS and data compared to those obtained by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES). The emission intensities of one selected line for each of the five analytes (i.e., Cr, Cu, Pb, V, and Zn) were normalized to the background signal, and plotted as a function of the concentration values previously determined by ICP-OES. Data showed a good linearity for all calibration lines drawn, and the correlation between ICP-OES and LIBS was confirmed by the satisfactory agreement obtained between the corresponding values. Consequently, LIBS method can be used at least for metal monitoring in soils. In this respect, a simple method for the estimation of the soil pollution degree by heavy metals, based on the determination of an anthropogenic index, was proposed and determined for Cr and Zn.
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Senesi GS, Dell'Aglio M, Gaudiuso R, De Giacomo A, Zaccone C, De Pascale O, Miano TM, Capitelli M. Heavy metal concentrations in soils as determined by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), with special emphasis on chromium. Environ Res 2009; 109:413-20. [PMID: 19272593 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2008] [Revised: 12/12/2008] [Accepted: 02/02/2009] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Soil is unanimously considered as one of the most important sink of heavy metals released by human activities. Heavy metal analysis of natural and polluted soils is generally conducted by the use of atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) or inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) on adequately obtained soil extracts. Although in recent years the emergent technique of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has been applied widely and with increasing success for the qualitative and quantitative analyses of a number of heavy metals in soil matrices with relevant simplification of the conventional methodologies, the technique still requires further confirmation before it can be applied fully successfully in soil analyses. The main objective of this work was to demonstrate that new developments in LIBS technique are able to provide reliable qualitative and quantitative analytical evaluation of several heavy metals in soils, with special focus on the element chromium (Cr), and with reference to the concentrations measured by conventional ICP spectroscopy. The preliminary qualitative LIBS analysis of five soil samples and one sewage sludge sample has allowed the detection of a number of elements including Al, Ca, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Pb, Si, Ti, V and Zn. Of these, a quantitative analysis was also possible for the elements Cr, Cu, Pb, V and Zn based on the obtained linearity of the calibration curves constructed for each heavy metal, i.e., the proportionality between the intensity of the LIBS emission peaks and the concentration of each heavy metal in the sample measured by ICP. In particular, a triplet of emission lines for Cr could be used for its quantitative measurement. The consistency of experiments made on various samples was supported by the same characteristics of the laser-induced plasma (LIP), i.e., the typical linear distribution confirming the existence of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) condition, and similar excitation temperatures and comparable electron number density measured for all samples. An index of the anthropogenic contribution of Cr in polluted soils was calculated in comparison to a non-polluted reference soil. Thus, the intensity ratios of the emission lines of heavy metal can be used to detect in few minutes the polluted areas for which a more detailed sampling and analysis can be useful.
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- G S Senesi
- IMIP-CNR-Bari, Via Amendola 122/D, Bari 70126, Italy.
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De Giacomo A, Dell'Aglio M, Casavola A, Colonna G, De Pascale O, Capitelli M. Elemental chemical analysis of submerged targets by double-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. Anal Bioanal Chem 2006; 385:303-11. [PMID: 16544131 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-006-0323-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2005] [Revised: 01/16/2006] [Accepted: 01/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Double-pulse laser-induced plasma spectroscopy (DP-LIPS) is applied to submerged targets to investigate its feasibility for elemental analysis. The role of experimental parameters, such as inter-pulse delay and detection time, has been discussed in terms of the dynamics of the laser-induced bubble produced by the first pulse and its confinement effect on the plasma produced by the second laser pulse. The analytical performance of this technique applied to targets in a water environment are discussed. The elemental analysis of submerged copper alloys by DP-LIPS has been compared with conventional (single-pulse) LIBS in air. Theoretical investigation of the plasma dynamics in water bubbles and open air has been performed.
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- A De Giacomo
- Chemistry Department, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy.
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Stelmaszczyk K, Dell'Aglio M, Chudzyński S, Stacewicz T, Wöste L. Analytical function for lidar geometrical compression form-factor calculations. Appl Opt 2005; 44:1323-1331. [PMID: 15765713 DOI: 10.1364/ao.44.001323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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A simple model of image formation in a Newtonian telescope was used for calculating an analytical formula, that describes the geometric compression form factors of coaxial and biaxial lidars. Calculations were successfully validated by comparison with real measurements, confirming the accuracy of our approach. The need for different alignment of coaxial and biaxial systems to increase the overlap between the lidar emitter and receiver is also discussed.
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- Kamil Stelmaszczyk
- Fachbereich Physik der Freien Universität Berlin, Institut Für Experimentalphysik, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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