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Spectroscopy Announces the Winner of the 2021 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award

David Tuschel is a Raman applications manager at Horiba Scientific in Edison, New Jersey, where he works with Fran Adar. David is sharing authorship of the "Molecular Spectroscopy Workbench" column with Fran.

Raman spectroscopy is extremely useful for characterizing crystalline materials.

Raman Crystallography and the Effect of Raman Polarizability Tensor Element Values

This approach provides traceable and reliable quantitative elemental analysis of airborne particles for on-site environmental measurement with portable instrumentation.

Reliable Chemical Analysis of Aerosols by Reference-Free X-ray Spectrometry for Monitoring Airborne Particulate Matter

Here, we compare XRD and FT-IR for analysis of suspect counterfeit pharmaceuticals to determine how the techniques can be used in a complementary fashion.

The Use of X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XRD) and Vibrational Spectroscopic Techniques in the Analysis of Suspect Pharmaceutical Products

Portable spectroscopic instruments have not had significant visibility within the scientific community compared with, for instance, the current generation of high-performance laboratory mass spectrometers.

The Future of Portable Spectroscopy

Forensic traces are physical remnants of past events that provide critical information for criminal and civil investigations and adjudications. The scientific examination of traces is an incredibly valuable tool for forensic investigations, because the skilled interpretation of traces yields factual answers to a range of pertinent questions.

Combining Spectroscopy with Microscopy for Advancing the Analysis of Forensically Relevant Traces

The increasing demand for secondary electrochemical storage devices requires well characterized and working battery systems.

Investigations of Ageing Mechanisms for New High-Energy- Density Battery Materials with X-Ray Spectrometry

Click the title above to open the Spectroscopy November 2019 Supplement, X-Ray Spectroscopy Methods & Applications in an interactive PDF format.

Spectroscopy November 2019 X-Ray Spectroscopy Methods & Applications

EDXRF offers potential advantages over ICP-OES for elemental analysis in agriculture. Karen Daly and Anna Fenelon of the Agriculture and Food Development Authority of Ireland spoke to us about their work investigating agricultural applications of this technique.

Applying EDXRF to Agricultural Analysis

The accumulation of heavy and toxic elements in gallstones and kidney stones can be studied using WDXRF spectroscopy. Here, Vivek K. Singh of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University in India talks about his work using this technique to understand the formation and content of these stones in the body.

X-ray Analysis