Real-time Picometer Resolution Spectrometers

Top articles published this week include a new Icons of Spectroscopy column, a news story about the use of Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy in gemology, and a Q&A interview about elemental analysis in pharmaceutical analysis.

Researchers from Jiangnan University introduced a sensitive, selective, and highly adaptable new probe for detecting hydrazine.

In Part II of our conversation with James Harrington of RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, who was the lead author of this study, as well as coauthor Donna Seibert of Kalamazoo, Michigan, they talk about the reproducibility for Hg and V, as well as the ICP-MS and XRF results compare to one another.

This sample prep method enables trace metals analysis in fertilizers, soil, and crops with improved accuracy and reproducibility.