Welcome to Day Three at FACSS 2009
Welcome to Day 3, the final day of Spectroscopy?s coverage from FACSS 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky. We hope you?ve had a productive week of networking and science, and we also hope that you?ve found this daily meeting report to be a helpful resource as you?ve navigated the week. However, before everyone begins their travels homeward or toward their next destination tonight or tomorrow, there is still a lot to do and see.
Welcome to Day 3, the final day of Spectroscopy’s coverage from FACSS 2009 in Louisville, Kentucky. We hope you’ve had a productive week of networking and science, and we also hope that you’ve found this daily meeting report to be a helpful resource as you’ve navigated the week. However, before everyone begins their travels homeward or toward their next destination tonight or tomorrow, there is still a lot to do and see.
Your best bet today might be the session “Inorganic Nanoparticles for Biological and Biomedical Applications,” scheduled for 10:15 am and featuring presentations dealing with advances in tissue analysis, biomedical diagnoses, and more. One of the highlights of this session should be “Silver nanoparticles for molecular probing of cells, tissues, and organs by SERS and their toxicological effects” by Ioana Pavel and Dawn Wooley, Wright State University, and Zofia Gagnon, Marist College. Here the authors present a novel approach to monitoring the bioaccumulation and toxicological effects of silver nanoparticles in cells, plants, and animal tissues, and utilize surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to probe subcellular compartments. Along with this fascinating work, this session will feature presentations on gold nanocages, the use of gold quantum dots as biological probes, and more, showcasing the many emerging applications of spectroscopy, and particularly Raman spectroscopy, in the biological and biomedical fields.
Finally, we’d like to take this opportunity to wish you safe travels wherever you may be headed at the end of this week. It has been our pleasure to bring you these meeting reports, and please look for more conference coverage like this coming up in 2010.
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.
