{"id":879,"date":"2025-10-10T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/?p=879"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:49:41","slug":"congrats-to-samanali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/congrats-to-samanali\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Samanali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Samanali on her publication &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1386142525012673\">Artificially light-aged, black-dyed harakeke fibres: Understanding the correlations between chemical composition and fibre properties using vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics<\/a>&#8221; in Spectrochimca Acta B.\u00a0 This work was part a longer term project which investigated harakeke fibres and the effects of dying and aging on them.\u00a0 Samanali&#8217;s work shows how infrared spectroscopy can be used to understand the oxidation of the fibres themselves while Raman spectroscopy can be used to look at the degradation of the dyes that are often used.<\/p>\n<p>Citation in full:\u00a0 <strong>G. A. P. Samanali<\/strong>, B. J. Lowe, C. A. Smith, S. J. Fraser-Miller, <strong>K. C. Gordon<\/strong>, Artificially light-aged, black-dyed harakeke fibres: Understanding the correlations between chemical composition and fibre properties using vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy (2026) 347, 126960. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.saa.2025.126960\">https:\/\/doi.org\/https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.saa.2025.126960<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Samanali-paper.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-880\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Samanali-paper-1024x798.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Samanali-paper-1024x798.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Samanali-paper-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Samanali-paper-768x598.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Samanali-paper.png 1127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure showing how infrared can differentiate dyed and undyed fibres based on the PCs as shown<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Samanali on her publication &#8220;Artificially light-aged, black-dyed harakeke fibres: Understanding the correlations between chemical composition and fibre properties using vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics&#8221; in Spectrochimca Acta B.\u00a0 This work was part a longer term project which investigated harakeke fibres and the effects of dying and aging on them.\u00a0 Samanali&#8217;s work shows how infrared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}