Renishaw’s inVia Confocal Raman Microscope Used to Study Blood Stored in Plastic Blood Bags
July 20th 2016The Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia, Canada, is leading the way in the use of Raman spectroscopy as a tool for monitoring biochemical changes and inter-donor variability in stored red blood cell (RBC) units.
Kaiser Optical Systems Hosts Groundbreaking Ceremony for Its Expansion in Ann Arbor
July 7th 2016Kaiser Optical Systems, Inc., an Endress+Hauser Company and a world leader in spectrographic instrumentation and applied holographic technology, hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on May 16, 2016, formally marking the expansion of its headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Triplet-Exciton Energy Transfer from Semiconductor Nanocrystals Demonstrated Using Spectroscopy
May 4th 2016Researchers at North Carolina State University, led by Prof. Felix Castellano, have shown for the first time that the photogenerated triplet exciton in semiconductor nanocrystals can be harvested by surface bound molecular acceptors, exhibited by a six-order magnitude increase in the lifetime of the originally prepared excited state.
Edinburgh Instruments’ Spectrometers Used to Characterize Egyptian Blue Pigment
March 18th 2016The Edinburgh Instruments applications team and Gianluca Accorsi, a research fellow at CNR Nanotec in Lecce, Italy, worked on the photo-physical properties of Egyptian blue pigment using Edinburgh’s fluorescence spectrometers.
University of Tokyo Uses Renishaw Confocal Raman Microscope to Develop Energy-Related Devices
March 2nd 2016The mechanical engineering department of the University of Tokyo is using a Renishaw inVia confocal Raman microscope to study graphene and other nano materials in the development of energy-related devices such as solar cells.
Michigan Researchers Use Raman Spectroscopy to Study Various Childhood Diseases
October 6th 2015Michael Klein is a surgeon with the Children's Hospital of Michigan-a part of the Detroit Medical Center (DMC)-and a researcher with the Department of Surgery at Wayne State University. The medical campus of Wayne State University (because of its close ties to the DMC) is the largest single site medical campus in the United States. Work using Raman spectroscopy is situated within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, under faculty member Abhilash Pandya and his colleagues Brady King and Luke Reisner.