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A major motivation for the scientific study of artworks is to understand their states of preservation and ongoing degradation mechanisms. This enables preservation strategies to be developed for irreplaceable works. Intensely-hued cadmium…
Carbon-based black pigments, a widely used class of pigments, are difficult to differentiate with the noninvasive techniques currently used in cultural heritage science. We utilize pump-probe microscopy to distinguish four common…
Electron tomography has achieved higher resolution and quality at reduced doses with recent advances in compressed sensing. Compressed sensing (CS) theory exploits the inherent sparse signal structure to efficiently reconstruct…
Energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXRD) is extremely insensitive to sample morphology when implemented in a back-reflection geometry. The capabilities of this non-invasive technique for cultural heritage applications have been explored…
Many paintings from the 19th century have exhibited signs of fading and discoloration, often linked to cadmium yellow, a pigment widely used by artists during that time. In this work, we develop a mathematical model of the cadmium sulfide…
Despite the advantages of using biodegradable metals in implant design, their uncontrolled degradation and release remain a challenge in practical applications. A validated computational model of the degradation process can facilitate the…
Pump-probe microscopy is an emerging nonlinear imaging technique based on high repetition rate lasers and fast intensity modulation. Here we present new methods for pump-probe microscopy that keep the beam intensity constant and instead…
Chemical imaging enables label-free visualization of cells, tissues and living systems while providing direct biochemical information that is difficult to obtain with conventional fluorescence microscopy. Despite its promise in applications…
Paints and coatings often feature interfacial defects due to disturbances during the deposition process which, if they persist until solidification, worsen the product quality. In this article, we investigate the stability of a thin liquid…
Sorting, filtering, moving and controlling colloidal particles is crucial in many fields, ranging from chemistry to biology and physics. Dielectrophoresis is an outstanding tool for the manipulation of small particles by AC electric fields,…
Fluorescence microscopy has been a significant tool to observe long-term imaging of embryos (in vivo) growth over time. However, cumulative exposure is phototoxic to such sensitive live samples. While techniques like light-sheet…
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Processes involving severe plastic deformations (SPD) and phase transformations and chemical reactions (PTs/CRs) under high pressures are widespread for obtaining new nanostructured phases and their processing, mechanochemical synthesis,…
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Silicon Carbide (SiC) ceramic matrix composite (CMC) cladding is currently being pursued as one of the leading candidates for accident-tolerant fuels. To enable an improved understanding of SiC-SiC composite performance, the development of…
This study introduces a novel self-supervised learning approach for volumetric segmentation of defect indications captured by phased array ultrasonic testing data from Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs). By employing this…
Diffusion Posterior Sampling (DPS) can be used in Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction by leveraging diffusion-based generative models for unconditional image synthesis while matching the observations (data) of a CT scan. Of particular…
We study experimentally the photoconductivity of CdS-CdSe sintered granular films obtained by the screen printing method. We mostly focus on the dependences of photoconductivity on film's microstructure, which varies with changing…
We have previously introduced Spectral Diffusion Posterior Sampling (Spectral DPS) as a framework for accurate one-step material decomposition by integrating analytic spectral system models with priors learned from large datasets. This work…
Microfading Spectrometry (MFS) is a method for assessing light sensitivity color (spectral) variations of cultural heritage objects. The MFS technique provides measurements of the surface under study, where each point of the surface gives…