Boston University School of Medicine Collaborates With Bruker
Bruker Daltonics announced that it has established a collaboration with the Mass Spectrometry Resource laboratory at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Bruker Daltonics (Billerica, Massachusetts) has established a collaboration with the Mass Spectrometry Resource laboratory of Professor Catherine Costello at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) (Boston, Massachusetts). The collaborative effort will focus on the application of high-performance ion trap mass spectrometry and Fourier transform mass spectrometry to glycomics and proteomics applications.
Professor Costello is a Research Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Chemistry, and the Director of the BUSM Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry. Her laboratory is a resource center sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, where mass spectrometry is applied to the study of biopolymers by local, national, and international collaborators. Professor Costello and her group are recognized internationally as experts in the analysis of the complex structures of carbohydrates and their conjugates.
Getting accurate IR spectra on monolayer of molecules
April 18th 2024Creating uniform and repeatable monolayers is incredibly important for both scientific pursuits as well as the manufacturing of products in semiconductor, biotechnology, and. other industries. However, measuring monolayers and functionalized surfaces directly is. difficult, and many rely on a variety of characterization techniques that when used together can provide some degree of confidence. By combining non-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM) and IR spectroscopy, IR PiFM provides sensitive and accurate analysis of sub-monolayer of molecules without the concern of tip-sample cross contamination. Dr. Sung Park, Molecular Vista, joined Spectroscopy to provide insights on how IR PiFM can acquire IR signature of monolayer films due to its unique implementation.
