Background Fruits are vulnerable to mechanical damages and physiological disorders
caused by the static and dynamic forces acting on them during transportation and abiotic …

Cement-based materials are generally highly heterogeneous, and their material properties
are strongly affected by the characteristics and spatial distributions of each constituent …

Contemporary soil, agronomic, and environmental investigations require high quality data
for the development of sound management decisions. For years, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) …

Background Food microstructure can be visualised by a wide range of microscopic
techniques, however these methods are usually destructive and require sample preparation …

Over the past decades, imaging and spectroscopy techniques have been developed rapidly
with widespread applications in non-destructive agro-food quality determination. Seeds are …

A key stage in planet formation is the evolution of a gaseous and magnetized solar nebula.
However, the lifetime of the nebular magnetic field and nebula are poorly constrained. We …

Biochar is an engineered carbon-rich substance used for soil improvement, environmental
management, and other diverse applications. To date, the understanding of how biomass …

The quality of agricultural products relates to the internal structure, which has long been a
matter of interest in agricultural scientists. However, inspection methods of the opaque …

High resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) is the industrial equivalent of medical CAT
scanning and provides a mechanism for non-destructive studies of the three-dimensional …

Volcanic rocks are the prominent host rocks in geothermal and volcanic systems in general,
displaying heterogeneity. Although various external factors such as temperature, pressure …