New research published the journal Biomedical Optics Express describes a smartphone-compatible spectrometer held and directed like a pencil. According to the article's authors, this novel device could ...

What does an exploding car and a motorboat have in common with mass spectrometry? Lee Polite of Axion Anyaltical Labs and his entertaining analogies return to ACS Webinars for another journey through ...

When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion of their ...

Direct MS system quickly analyzes samples requiring minimal prep or expertise to help improve operational efficiencies and competitiveness The Waters RADIAN ASAP System is a novel direct-from-sample ...

If you’ve ever dreamed of building a proper spectrometer, it looks like the ESPROS epc901 CCD sensor is absolutely worth your attention. It’s fast, sensitive, easy to interface with, and at just $24 ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2024.240099 discusses an on-chip spectrometer with high performance, low power-consumption and simple control logic. The miniaturized ...

There’s an art to picking out ripe fruit. You push on the end of a cantaloupe and smell it, test the firmness of an avocado, tap on the outside of a watermelon. It’s kind of a charming process, but ...

When we taught a class of first year chem/biochem majors about spectroscopy, we introduced them to it with a task. It was to dig through bins full of the things shown below (many of them 3D-printed ...

While many people often use spectroscopy and spectrometry interchangeably, there are some subtle differences in their exact meanings and the associated experimental techniques they are used to ...