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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.
Hellma Group to Acquire Business of Axiom Analytical
March 2nd 2016The Hellma Group (Müllheim, Germany), a manufacturer of optical solutions and components for the process industries and research analytical laboratories, will acquire Axiom Analytical Inc. (Tustin, California), a provider of laboratory and process sampling equipment.
VUV Analytics in Collaborative Project with Caltech Environmental Analysis Center
February 19th 2016VUV Analytics (Cedar Park, Texas) is collaborating with Caltech Environmental Analysis Center (EAC) in Pasadena, California, in a closed-ended project that explores new application capabilities using VUV’s VGA-100 Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) detector.
Steve Ray Wins Young Plasma Scientist Award
January 13th 2016Steven J. Ray, an assistant professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo, received the inaugural Young Plasma Scientist Award today at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tucson, Arizona. The award, judged by an international selection committee and sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific, recognizes the work of a scientist no older than 45 years old working in the field of plasma spectrochemistry.
Timothy Cross Awarded EAS Honor for Achievements in NMR
November 23rd 2015Timothy A. Cross has received the 2015 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The award was presented to him at the Eastern Analytical Symposium conference in Somerset, New Jersey, on November 16.
Benoît Igne Receives 2015 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in NIR Spectroscopy
November 23rd 2015Benoît Igne has won the Eastern Analytical Symposium’s 2015 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy. He was honored at an award symposium at the 2015 EAS award held in Somerset, New Jersey, on November 18.
Peter Wentzell Receives 2015 EAS Award for Chemometrics
November 23rd 2015Peter D. Wentzell has received the 2015 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Chemometrics from the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS). The award was presented to Wentzell at an oral symposium at the 2015 EAS conference in Somerset, New Jersey, on November 17.
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.
Society for Applied Spectroscopy Presents Student Awards at SciX 2015
September 30th 2015The Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) presented the SAS undergraduate student research excellence, student poster awards, and student travel grants, on Sunday, September 27, at SciX 2015, at the opening reception and student poster session.
Agilent Collaborates with Weill Cornell Medical College on ALS Research
September 21st 2015Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, California) has agreed to support research by Steven Gross, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College (New York, New York), into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.