Eight Spectroscopy Innovations Among 2012 R&D 100 Awards
The winners of the 2012 R&D Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year, have been announced.
The winners of the 2012 R&D Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year, have been announced. The innovations represent a broad spectrum of new materials, instruments, consumer products, environmental and energy technologies, imaging systems, communications, and electronic instrumentation, as well as process technologies and safety systems. The winning technologies were developed by a cross-section of industry, academia, private research firms, and government laboratories.
Among the winners with innovations in spectroscopy are:
- Agilent Technologies Australia – Agilent 4100 Microwave Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer (MP-AES) (Analytical Instruments)
- Bruker AXS, Inc. – PHOTON 100 (Analytical Instruments)
- Horiba Scientific – Verde Hyperspectral Imaging Camera (Imaging Technologies)
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory – Wide field-of-view curved focal plane array (WFC) (Imaging Technologies)
- picoSpin LLC – picoSpin-45 NMR Spectrometer (Analytical Instruments)
- Protea Bioscience Group, Inc. – LAESI DP-1000 Direct Ionization System (Analytical Instruments)
- Xradia – VersaXRM-500 3D X-ray Microscope (Imaging Technologies)
Over the last 50 years, the R&D 100 Awards have identified revolutionary technologies newly introduced to the market. Many of these have become household names, helping shape everyday life for many Americans. These include the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the Kodak Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm anti-smoking patch (1992), Taxol anticancer drug (1993), lab on a chip (1996), and HDTV (1998).
Recipients will be recognized at the R&D 100 Awards Banquet on November 1, 2012, in Orlando, Florida.
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.
Achieving 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.
