FT-IR and Raman Microscopy on a United Platform: A Technology Whose Time Has Come (pdf)

Here are the top five articles that the editors of Spectroscopy published this week.

An interview with Paul Pudney, a winner of the William F. Meggers Award.

In a recent study out of China, Liyi Zhou and her fellow scientists created a nanoprodrug system to help treat liver cancer.

An interview with Charles Wilkins, the winner of the 2013 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company.

Chinese scientists recently combined confocal microscopy and an echelle-grating spatial-heterodyne Raman spectrometer (CM-ESHRS) to create a new system for detecting microplastics.

Scientists at the Analytica conference in Munich, Germany delivered lectures on using techniques such as Raman and tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy to analyze gas in the environment.