Photodegradation of Synthetic and Natural Dyes: A Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning Approach.

This research aims to develop mass spectrometry methodologies and a dye database in combination with liquid chromatography and ambient ionization techniques for the identification, prediction, and structural elucidation of dyes and their degradation products. As the Director of the Max Weaver Dye Library, you will be able to access this historic collection of 100,000 dyes to learn color-structure relationships, similarity searches, and explore how photodegradation affects the dye structure, producing the loss of color. Further, we examine natural dyes and their degradation products to study historic garments. The study of natural and synthetic dyes. As a part of this project, you will learn high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, ambient
ionization, and database generation and curation.