Mike Bradley Joins Spectroscopy's Editorial Advisory Board
Spectroscopy is pleased to announce the addition of Mike Bradley to its editorial advisory board.
Spectroscopy is pleased to announce the addition of Mike Bradley to its editorial advisory board.
Bradley graduated from the University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) with a BS in Chemistry and earned his PhD from the University of Illinois (Urbana–Champaign, Illinois).
He is the marketing manager for Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Madison, Wisconsin. He taught at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) and Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, Indiana) for a combined 15 years, and worked at Abbott Laboratories prior to becoming a field applications scientist with (then) Thermo Nicolet in 2002.
Bradley was heavily involved in the development and launch of the Thermo Scientific Nicolet iS10 FT-IR spectrometer and the Nicolet iN10 FT-IR microscope in 2008. He has been product manager for the FT-IR products since 2009. Most recently, Bradley led the teams that developed the Thermo Scientific Nicolet iS50 FT-IR spectrometer, launched in 2012, and was recently promoted to marketing manager for FT-IR microscopy products.
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.
