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ArticleACS sustainable resource management2025

Biochar Stability Revealed by FTIR and Machine Learning.

Monica A McCall, Jonathan S Watson, Jonathan S W Tan, Mark A Sephton

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Article in ACS sustainable resource management, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Monica A McCallEarth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2598-3477
Jonathan S WatsonEarth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Jonathan S W TanEarth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
Mark A SephtonEarth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biochar is a carbon-rich and environmentally recalcitrant material, with strong potential for climate change mitigation. There is a need for rapid and accessible estimations of biochar stability, the resistance to biotic and abiotic degradation in soil. This study builds on previous work by integrating Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) data with predictive modeling to estimate standard stability indicators: H:C and O:C molar ratios. Lignocellulosic feedstocks were pyrolyzed at highest treatment temperatures (HTT) ranging from 150-700 °C, and all samples achieved H:C < 0.7 and O:C < 0.4 at HTT of 400 °C and above. Several statistical and machine learning models were developed using FTIR spectra. The random forest (RF) models, which incorporated full data preprocessing, yielded the highest accuracy (

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grassH:Cinfrared spectroscopymodelingmolar ratiosO:CRandom Forestwood

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PMID40432732
PMCPMC12105012

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