Marcella Dell’Aglio

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the theoretical analysis underlying the concept of thermodynamic equilibrium and the derivation of the McWhirter criterion, and critically discussed its application to a transient and nonhomogeneous plasma, like that created by a laser pulse on solid targets.

TL;DR: This review reports and discusses LIBS achievements and results obtained for soils and aqueous samples, meteorites and terrestrial samples simulating extraterrestrial planets, and cultural heritage samples, including buildings and objects of various kinds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the development of laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) underwater has been reviewed to clear up the basic aspects of this technique as well as the main peculiarities of the analytical approach.

TL;DR: The main objective of this work was to demonstrate that new developments in LIBS technique are able to provide reliable qualitative and quantitative analytical evaluation of several heavy metals in soils, with special focus on the element chromium (Cr), with reference to the concentrations measured by conventional ICP spectroscopy.

TL;DR: Nanoparticle-enhanced LIBS (NELIBS) was found to be a robust and flexible tool for the chemical analysis of metals because the sample emission signal did not appear to be affected much by the size and concentration of deposited nanoparticles.