Researchers from Memorial University in St. John's Newfoundland and Laborador use the Bruker endstation at the Mid-IR beamline to analyze an oil-absorbing aerogel. The chemical composition of the aerogel was identified with SR-FTIR. Furthermore, the aerogel was imaged before and after UV-irradiation to identify UV-induced changes in the material.

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Hongjie Wang, Xiujuan Chen, Bing Chen, Yuming Zhao, Baiyu Zhang. Development of a spiropyran-assisted cellulose aerogel with switchable wettability as oil sorbent for oil spill cleanup. Sci Total Env 2024, 923, 171451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171451.