The identification and quantification of both commercial (paints, coatings and fossil fuels) and naturally occurring VOCs has become an essential part of analytical chemistry. Volatile organic ...

Plant volatile organic compounds are elusive and influential chemicals that are an essential part of how plants react with their environment and that also affect Earth's climate globally. A new review ...

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...

Volatile compounds play a critical role in defining the sensory attributes of meat products. These compounds, which arise predominantly through lipid oxidation, Maillard reactions and proteolytic ...

Emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids, volatile organic compounds include a variety of chemicals, and many are associated with adverse health effects so detecting VOCs simply, quickly, and ...

Recent research is uncovering the link between exposure to semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) and changes in the gut microbiome. Scientists are particularly interested in how these products ...

Scientists are working on diagnostic techniques that could sniff out chemical compounds from breath, sweat, tears and other bodily emissions and that act as fingerprints of thousands of diseases. But ...

Components of different concentrations are often found in food aroma profiles, but compounds that are odour- active are usually present in small amounts. Hence it is important to ensure that all ...

A new study using US health survey data has developed a machine learning model that predicts osteoarthritis risk from exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The Linear Discriminant Analysis ...