This study proposes the development and evaluation of a new portable multispectral instrument to estimate the leaf nitrogen concentration in maize crops in the field. The MSPAT (Multispectral Soil Plant Analysis Tools...
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This study proposes the development and evaluation of a new portable multispectral instrument to estimate the leaf nitrogen concentration in maize crops in the field. The MSPAT (Multispectral Soil Plant Analysis Tools) includes the AS7265x sensor, which has 18 bands and covers the spectrum from 410 to 940 nm. The device was designed to be portable, using the ESP32 microcontroller and incorporating such functionality as data storage on a MicroSD card, communication with a smartphone via WiFi and geolocation of the acquired data. The MSPAT was evaluated in an experiment conducted at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), where the maize was subjected to different doses of nitrogen fertiliser (0, 60, 90, 120, 150 and 180 ***−1 N). Spectral readings were taken at three phenological stages (V5, V10, R2) using the MSPAT, the SPAD-502 chlorophyll meter and the FieldSpec PRO FR3 spectroradiometer. After taking the optical measurements, the nitrogen content of the leaves was determined in the laboratory using the method proposed by Kjeldahl. The data analysis included the calculation of normalised ratio indices (NRIs) for the estimation using linear regression, and the application of multivariate statistical methods (PLSR and PCR) for predicting the leaf nitrogen concentration (LNC). The results showed that the MSPAT index with the best performance used the 900 nm band in a normalised ratio with the 560 nm band (R2 = 0.64) at stage V10. In the validation, the MSPAT presented an R2 of 0.79, demonstrating superior performance to the SPAD-502, which achieved an R2 of 0.70. This confirms the potential of the MSPAT compared to commercial equipment, and made it possible to obtain similar results to the reference spectroradiometer. The PLSR model with data from the FieldSpec 3 provided important validation metrics when using reflectance data with first-derivative transformation (R2 = 0.88, RMSE = 1.94 and MAE = 1.28). When using the MSPAT, PLSR (R2 = 0.75, RMSE = 2.77 and MAE = 2
An interesting connection between shark spiral intestines and the Tesla valve was proposed recently;however, how Tesla valves interact with active matters and the potential applications of Tesla valves in biology rema...
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We present a theoretical investigation on the electronic structures and the thermoelectric properties of doped ZrCoBi half-Heusler compound using a combination of density functional theory calculations, semi classical...
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Impact damage to composite structures can lead to a range of damage modes. Of interest is modest damage composed of delaminations less than 50 mm in size, and no visible impact-side fiber breakage. While resin injecti...
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Bacterial motion in porous media are essential for their survival, proper functioning, and variousapplications. Here we investigated the motion of Escherichia coli bacteria in microsphere-mimicked porousmedia. We obse...
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The effect of random competing single-ion anisotropies in antiferromagnets was studied using epitaxial MnxNi1−xF2 antiferromagnetic thin film alloys grown via molecular beam epitaxy. The crystal structure of this mate...
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Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is a crucial technique in molecular polarity analysis. Despite its importance, the interpretability of predictive models for TLC, especially those driven by artificial intelligence, rem...
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Defects in materials significantly alter their electronic and structural properties, which affect the performance of electronic devices, structural alloys, and functional materials. However, calculating all the possib...
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We have explored different aspects of charge-carrier dynamics and relaxation in lead-free Cs2SnI6 double perovskite using dielectric spectroscopy and assessed its electrochemical response. The cubic phase (Fm3¯m)...
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We have explored different aspects of charge-carrier dynamics and relaxation in lead-free Cs2SnI6 double perovskite using dielectric spectroscopy and assessed its electrochemical response. The cubic phase (Fm3¯m) with a lattice constant of 11.644 Å is confirmed for synthesized perovskite. The phonon dispersion illustrated by density-functional theory indicates the existence of soft optical modes triggered by anharmonic rattling of Cs atoms and dynamical rotation of SnI6 octahedra. Complex impedance spectra have provided details of the contributions of grain boundaries, grains, and anharmonic rattling to charge-carrier dynamics. The Cs2SnI6 exhibits electrical conductivity of 3.77×10−5Scm−1 at ambient conditions. The values of the power-law exponent for all temperatures suggest superlinear power-law (SPL) behavior of the ac conductivity. The relaxation time and the stretched exponent in the Kohlrausch-Williams-Watts (KWW) function of the electric modulus are caused by charge-carrier short-range mobility and the hopping of rattling-assisted polarons. The supercapacitor fabricated with Cs2SnI6 as the electrode has delivered a specific capacitance of 3830 F g−1 at a current density of 2 A g−1. A quasi-solid-state asymmetric supercapacitor device was also fabricated, which delivered an energy density of 51 Wh kg−1 and a power density as high as 852 W kg−1 at a current density of 1 A g−1. We believe this work will open up the avenue to another generation of lead-free, perovskite-based, sustainable energy-storage systems.
Several related aerosol processes utilize high velocity impact of solid nanoparticles to produce nanograined films including the aerosol deposition method, jet molding, vacuum kinetic spraying, and micro cold spray. A...
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