Biomedical and environmental applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

V. K. Unnikrishnan; K. S. Choudhari; Suresh D. Kulkarni; Rajesh Nayak; V. B. Kartha; C. Santhosh; B. M. Suri

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Biomedical and environmental applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy

V. K. Unnikrishnan, K. S. Choudhari, Suresh D. Kulkarni, Rajesh Nayak, V. B. Kartha, C. Santhosh^*, B. M. Suri

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Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Manipal

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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an emerging analytical technique with numerous advantages such as rapidity, multi-elemental analysis, minimal sample preparation, minimal destruction, low cost and versatility of being applied to a wide range of materials. In this paper, we report the preliminary observations we obtained using LIBS for clinical and environmental samples. Elemental analysis has been done qualitatively in human teeth samples which show encouraging results. It has also been demonstrated in this paper that LIBS can be very well utilized in field applications such as plastic waste sorting and recycling.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	397-401
Number of pages	5
Journal	Pramana - Journal of Physics
Volume	82
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-014-0698-5
Publication status	Published - 01-01-2014

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