February 2021

The COVID-19 vaccine, and the speed at which it was developed, is the medical breakthrough of our lifetimes.

This work shows that the combination of THz-TDS and DFT can provide an effective method to investigate the connection mode of hydrogen bonds and thus aid in characterizing compounds such as this potential drug candidate.

In precious samples, effective methods for multielemental analysis could provide a deeper understanding of the essential role of elements as cofactors in biological and pathological processes. Tobias Konz of Nestlé Research explains.

Jason R. Dwyer of the University of Rhode Island discusses the application of nanopore sensors to the analysis of natural and synthetic oligosaccharides and polysaccharides.

Raman measurements of chromite minerals demonstrated that chromium content could be accurately determined, supporting a possible application of portable Raman devices on Earth or in space for mineral analysis of asteroids and planets.

Raman spectra were measured in combination with 2D-COS analysis to understand how the addition of propyl side groups to a biopolymer backbone influences the structure of the polymer at the atomic level.

Mathematics is a formal logic system, perhaps the ultimate formal logic system. Here we describe the elegance of the foundations of the mathematics that chemometrics is based on.