Efficient and accurate determination of the degree of substitution of cellulose acetate using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and machine learning
摘要
Multiple linear regression models were trained to predict the degree of substitution (DS) of cellulose acetate based on raw infrared (IR) spectroscopic data. A repeated k-fold cross validation ensured unbiased assessment of model accuracy. Using the DS obtained from 1H NMR data as reference, the machine learning model achieved a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.069 in DS on test data, demonstrating higher accuracy compared to the manual evaluation based on peak integration. Limiting the model to physically relevant areas unexpectedly showed the