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Hard X-Ray Transient Grating Spectroscopy Used for Investigating Nanoscale Transport Phenomena

Transient grating spectroscopy is an elegant method that uses two laser pulses to activate a medium by creating an interference pattern made of parallel stripes of excitations that can be thermal, electronic, magnetic or even structural.

23 Apr 2021

Configuring Spectroscopic Imaging Tools for Accurate Breast Cancer Detection

One of the technical challenges the current data revolution faces is finding an efficient way to route the data. This task is usually performed by electronic switches, while the data itself is transferred using light confined in optical waveguides.

15 Apr 2021

Configuring Spectroscopic Imaging Tools for Accurate Breast Cancer Detection

Detecting and analyzing breast cancer goes beyond the initial discovery of the cancer itself. If a patient has a tumor removed and it needs to be analyzed to determine further treatment, it might be OK for the results to take 24 hours.

9 Apr 2021

Mass Spectrometry Helps Identify Molecular Composition of Meteorites

In an effort to find the origin of carbonaceous chondrites—the insoluble organic matter constituting the Murchison and Allende meteorites—researchers from Russia and Germany investigated their molecular composition.

6 Apr 2021

X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Used to Study Structure of Proteins in Egg White

A team of scientists has been using DESY's X-ray source PETRA III to analyse the structural changes that take place in an egg when you cook it. The work reveals how the proteins in the white of a chicken egg unfold and cross-link with each other to form a solid structure when heated.

31 Mar 2021

Novel Measurement Technique Brings the Study of Molecular Chirality into Microscopic Domain

Researchers have developed a spectroscopic microscope to enable optical measurements of molecular conformations and orientations in biological samples. The novel measurement technique allows researchers to image biological samples at the microscopic level more quickly and accurately.

9 Mar 2021

New Mass Spectrometry Imaging Method Based on Theory of Human Color Perception

Skoltech scientists have proposed a Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) method leveraging the unique features of human vision. The research was published in the journal Analytical Chemistry.

12 Feb 2021

THz Spectroscopy Reveals Transient Evolution of Photoexcited Plasma in Liquid Water

Photoionization of water involves the migration and solvation of electrons, with many transient and highly active intermediates. The process results in a large blue shift in the absorption spectrum, from the THz or gigahertz region to the visible range.

10 Feb 2021

Novel Analytical Tools Developed by SMART Key to Next-Generation Agriculture

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision Interdisciplinary Research Group of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, highlight the potential of recently developed analytical tools that are rapid and non-destructive, with a proof of concept through first-generation examples.

10 Feb 2021

WITec ParticleScout™ Enhanced with New Features

WITec GmbH, the pace-setting leader in Raman microscope technology, has enhanced its ParticleScout automated particle analysis tool to offer even greater speed and versatility for finding, classifying and identifying microparticles.

From WITec GmbH 3 Feb 2021