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2008
Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy— method and
applications (624 kB)
Neil T. Hunt
Department of Physics,
University of Strathclyde, SUPA, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow, G4 0NG, UK.
E-mail: n.hunt@phys.strath.ac.uk,
http://bcp.phys.strath.ac.uk/ultrafast/
Identification and quantitation of proteins using mass
spectrometry-based peptide multiplex labelling methods (882 kB)
Brian
Williamson and Subdoh Nimkar
Applied Biosystems, Framingham, MA,
USA
A
short history of magnetic resonance imaging (349 kB)
Peter A.
Rinck
European Magnetic Resonance Forum (EMRF) Foundation, WTC, BP 255,
F-06905 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
X-ray fluorescence trace metal analysis of environmental
liquid samples after membrane preconcentration (355 kB)
Eva
Marguí,a* Clàudia Fontàs,a Katleen
Van Meel,b Manuela Hidalgoa and Ignasi
Queraltc
aDepartment of Chemistry, University of
Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Spain
bDepartment of
Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp,
Belgium
cLaboratory of X-Ray Analytical Applications, Institute
of Earth Sciences “Jaume Almera”, CSIC, Solé Sabarís
s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
The analysis of used lubrication oils by inductively
coupled plasma spectrometry for predictive maintenance (459 kB)
Matthew
Cassap
ICP Applications Specialist, Thermo Scientific, Cambridge,
UK
2007
Quantitative surface chemical microscopy by X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy (264 kB)
John Walton
Surface Analysis
Coordinator, School of Materials, The University of Manchester, PO Box 88,
Manchester, M60 1QD, UK. E-mail: john.walton@manchester.ac.uk, Web:
personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/john.walton
Combined infrared and visible spectroscopic ellipsometry
study of thin polymer layers (264 kB)
K. Hinrichsa and K.-J.
Eichhornb
aISAS–Institute for Analytical
Sciences, Department Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 12489 Berlin,
Germany
bLeibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Hohe Str.
6, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Hidden depths? New techniques for sub-surface
spectroscopy (1537 kB)
Neil A. Macleod, Charlotte Eliasson and Pavel
Matousek
Central Laser Facility, Science and Technology Facilities
Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus,
Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom. E-mail:
P.Matousek@rl.ac.uk
UV/vis reflectance spectroscopy reveals the changes in fibre
chemistry during ageing (764 kB)
Anna-Stiina
Jääskeläinena and Tiina
Liitiäb
aTKK Helsinki University of
Technology, Laboratory of Forest Products Chemistry, PO Box 6300, 02015 Espoo,
Finland. E-mail: tiina.jaaskelainen@tkk.fi
bKCL Science and
Consulting, PO Box, 02150 Espoo, Finland. E-mail: tiina.liitia@kcl.fi
Quantitative NMR spectroscopy in the quality evaluation of
active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients (264 kB)
Bernd W.K.
Diehl,a Frank Malzb and Ulrike
Holzgrabec*
aSpectralservice, Emil-Hoffmann-Str.
33, 50996 Köln, Germany
bFederal Institute for Material
Research and Testing (BAM), Richard-Willstätter-Str. 11, 12489 Berlin,
Germany
cInstitute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of
Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
Detecting illicit drugs and metabolites in wastewater using
high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (144
kB)
Sara Castiglioni,* Ettore Zuccato, Chiara Chiabrando, Roberto
Fanelli and Renzo Bagnati
Department of Environmental Health Sciences,
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, via La Masa 19, 20156
Milan, Italy. E-mail: bagnati@marionegri.it
Nuclear magnetic resonance: stepping up to the PAT
challenge (548 kB)
Michael A. Bernstein
AstraZeneca R&D
Charnwood, Bakewell Road, Loughborough, Leics. LE11 5RH, UK. E-mail:
michael.bernstein@astrazeneca.com
Absolute configuration determination of chiral molecules
without crystallisation by vibrational circular dichroism (VCD)
(1191 kB)
Edwin R. Kellenbach,a Rina K. Dukorb and
Laurence A. Nafieb,c
aORGANON BioSciences, PO Box
20, 5340BH Oss, The Netherlands. E-mail:
edwin.kellenbach@organon.com
bBioTools Inc., 17546 Bee Line Hwy,
Jupiter, FL, 33458, USA
cDepartment of Chemistry, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY 13244–4100, USA
Raman spectroscopy in the forensic conservation of a
unique marine artefact: the HMS Victory Trafalgar sail (1540
kB)
Howell G.M. Edwards
Division of Chemical and Forensic
Sciences/University Analytical Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of
Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK. E-mail: h.g.m.edwards@bradford.ac.uk
XRF spectrometry for trace element analysis of vegetation
samples (448 kB)
E. Marguí,a,* M. Hidalgoa
and I. Queraltb
aDepartment of Chemistry.
University of Girona. Campus Montilivi, 17071 Girona,
Spain
bInstitute of Earth Sciences “Jaume Almera”,
CSIC, C/Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Protein reactions: resolved with tr-FT-IR (1369
kB)
Carsten Kötting and Klaus Gerwert
Lehrstuhl für
Biophysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany. E-mail:
carsten.koetting@rub.de, gerwert@bph.rub.de
Identification of furs of domestic dog, raccoon dog, rabbit
and domestic cat by hair analysis using MALDI–ToF mass spectrometry
(1707 kB)
Klaus Hollemeyer,a Wolfgang Altmeyerb and
Elmar Heinzlea
aBiochemical Engineering Institute,
Saarland University, Im St. Johanner Stadtwald, D-66123 Saarbruecken,
Germany
bGene-Facts GbR, Science Park 1, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 67,
D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
NIR evaluation of the quality of tea and its market
price (582 kB)
Shou-He Yan
Université catholique de Louvain
(UCL), Unité de Biochimie de la Nutrition (BNUT), Croix du Sud 2/8, 1348
Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. E-mail: yan@bnut.ucl.ac.be
High resolution infrared studies at the Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory Molecular Spectroscopy Facility: Part 2 (810 kB)
Kevin M.
Smith
Molecular Spectroscopy Facility, Space Science and Technology
Department, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire,
OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
Probing chiral recognition in liquid chromatography by
absolute configuration modulation ATR-IR spectroscopy (2761 kB)
Ronny
Wirz,a Davide Ferri,a* Thomas Bürgib and
Alfons Baikera
aInstitute for Chemical and
Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, HCI, CH–8093
Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail: davide.ferri@chem.ethz.ch
bInstitute
of Microtechnology, University of Neuchâtel, Rue Emile-Argand 11,
CH–2009 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
High resolution infrared studies at the Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory Molecular Spectroscopy Facility: Part 1 (1203 kB)
Kevin M.
Smith
Molecular Spectroscopy Facility, Space Science and Technology
Department, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire,
OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
A comparison of two digestion methods for the analysis
of heavy metals by flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (4441
kB)
Carolina Micó, Luis Recatalá, Mónica Peris and Juan
Sánchez
Desertification Research Centre-CIDE (University of
Valencia, Spanish National Research Council, Valencian Regional Government),
Camí de la marjal s/n, Albal (Valencia), Spain. E-mail:
carolina.mico@uv.es
2006
The contributions of surface analysis to adhesion
research (2857 kB)
John F. Watts
Surrey Materials Institute and
School of Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK.
E-mail: j.watts@surrey.ac.uk
Differential optical absorption spectroscopy as a tool to
measure pollution from space (4036 kB)
Andreas Richter
Institute
of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany. E-mail:
andreas.richter@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de
Ion
mobility spectrometry to detect lung cancer and airway infections (901
kB)
J.I. Baumbacha and M.
Westhoffb
aISAS—Institute for Analytical
Sciences, Department of Metabolomics, Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Straße 11, 44139
Dortmund, Germany
bLung Hospital Hemer, Theo-Funccius-Str. 1,
58675 Hemer, Germany
Understanding and measuring photooxidation in dairy products
by fluorescence spectroscopy (1787 kB)
Jens Petter Wold
MATFORSK,
Norwegian Food Research Institute, Osloveien 1, 1430 Ås, Norway
Near infrared spectroscopy: the workhorse in the PAT
toolbox (747 kB)
Erik Skibsted
Novo Nordisk, CMC Supply,
Analytical Development, Denmark. E-mail: ersk@novonordisk.com
Quantum cascade lasers bring sensitivity and speed to
infrared gas sensing (1581 kB)
Geoffrey Duxbury and Nigel
Langford
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, Department of Physics,
John Anderson Building, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow East, Glasgow
G4 0NG, UK. E-mail: g.duxbury@strath.ac.uk,
n.langford@phys.strath.ac.uk
Recent advances in in situ U–Pb dating of
geological events by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass
spectrometry (1055 kB)
Teresa Jeffries,a Craig
Storeyb and Javier
Fernandez-Suarezc
aDepartment of Mineralogy, The
Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK. E-mail:
t.jeffries@nhm.ac.uk
bDepartment of Earth Sciences, The Open
University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
cUniversidad Complutense
de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, s/n - 28040, Madrid, Spain
On-line and in situ UV/vis spectroscopy for
multi-parameter measurements: a brief review (489 kB)
Joep van den
Broeke,a,* Günter Langergraberb and Andreas
Weingartnera
as::can Messtechnik GmbH,
Brigittagasse 22-24, A-1200 Vienna, Austria. E-mail:
jvandenbroeke@s-can.at
bInstitute for Sanitary Engineering and
Water Pollution Control, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied
Life Sciences, Vienna, Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
Real-time detection of possible harmful events using UV/vis
spectrometry (444 kB)
G. Langergraber,a J. van den
Broeke,b,* W. Lettlb and A.
Weingartnerb
aInstitute for Sanitary Engineering
and Water Pollution Control, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied
Life Sciences, Vienna, Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Vienna, Austria. E-mail:
guenter.langergraber@boku.ac.at
bs::can Messtechnik GmbH,
Brigittagasse 22-24, A-1200 Vienna, Austria. E-mail:
jvandenbroeke@s-can.at
Food authentication—has near infrared spectroscopy a
role? (919 kB)
Gerard Downey,a* J. Daniel Kellya
and Cristina Petisco Rodriguezb
aTeagasc, Ashtown
Food Research Centre, Ashtown, Dublin 15, Ireland. E-mail:
gerard.downey@teagasc.ie
bInstituto de Recursos Naturales y
Agrobiología, CSIC, Apdo 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
Micro-X-ray studies of the Godarville speleothems
(626 kB)
Andrzej Kuczumow,a Dominique Genty,b Pierre
Chevallier,c Jakub Nowak,a Marek Floreka and
Anna Lincaa
aDepartment of Chemistry, Catholic
University Lublin, 102 Al.Kras´nicka, 20-718 Lublin,
Poland
bLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de
l’Environnement, LSCE UMR CEA/CNRS 1572, Bât. 701, L’Orme des
Merisiers, CEA Saclay, 91 191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
cLURE, Campus
Universitaire Paris-Sud, Bât. 209D, 91898 Orsay Cedex, France
Drug tablets instant analysis by desorption-electrospray
ionisation mass spectrometry (2518 kB)
Luc Alexis Leuthold, Emmanuel
Varesio and Gérard Hopfgartner
Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry,
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, EPGL, University of Geneva, University of
Lausanne, 20 Bd d’Yvoy, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and its application
to the remote characterisation of hazardous materials (2163 kB)
Andrew
I. Whitehouse
Applied Photonics Ltd, Unit 8, Carleton Business Park,
Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 2DE. UK
The power of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
in pharmaceutical analysis (4208 kB)
Helen Williams and Mike
Claybourn
AstraZeneca, Silk Road Business Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire,
SK10 2NA, UK
Raman spectroscopy goes to Mars (1269 kB)
Fernando
Rull Pérez and Jesus Martinez-Frias
Centro de
Astrobiología, Unidad Asociada CSIC-Universidad de Valladolid, Facultad
de Ciencias, 47006 Valladolid, Spain
2005
Drugs on money and beyond: tandem mass spectrometry in the
forensic sciences (982 kB)
Rich Sleeman, Jim Carter and Karl
Ebejer
Mass Spec Analytical Ltd, Building 20F, Golf Course Lane, Filton,
Bristol, BS99 7AR, UK
Laser desorption and laser ablation Fourier transform mass
spectrometry for the analysis of pollutants in complex matrices (1813
kB)
Frédéric Aubriet,* Vincent Carréa and
Jean-François Muller
Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse
et de Chimie Laser, Université Paul Verlaine–Metz, 1, Boulevard
Arago, F-57078 Metz Technopole 2000 Cedex 03, France. E-mail:
aubriet@univ-metz.fr aPresent address: UMR CNRS 8522, Physicochimie des
Processus de Combustion et de l’Atmosphère,
LCPA–Université d’Artois, Parc Porte Nord, 62700
Bruay-la-Buissière, France
Traceable certified reference materials (CRMs) in
far-ultraviolet spectrophotometry (587 kB)
John P.
Hammond
Analytical Products, Optiglass Ltd, Hainult, Essex, UK. E-mail:
john.hammond@optiglass.co.u
Raman spectroscopy: a simple, non-destructive way to
characterise diamond and diamond-like materials (3696 kB)
Jacob
Filik
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TS,
UK
Vacuum-UV chemical physics in the gas phase using
synchrotron radiation (1956 kB)
Richard P. Tuckett
School of
Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Organic and molecular imaging by ToF-SIMS—at the
cutting edge (1305 kB)
Alan J. Paul
CSMA, CERAM, Queens Road,
Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7LQ, UK
Trace element availability in compost (1069
kB)
Qi Jun Songa and Gillian M.
Greenwayb*
aSchool of Chemical and Material
Engineering, Southern Yangtze University, China
bHull Environment
Research Institute, University of Hull, UK
Simultaneous near infrared spectroscopy and dynamic
rheological analysis for process monitoring of reactive polymers (829
kB)
S. Benali,a D. Bertrand,b J. Dupuyc and
G. Lachenald
aUniversité de Mons Hainaut,
Matériaux Polymères et Composites, Place du Parc, 20 ,7000 Mons,
Belgium
bENITIAA-INRA, Unité de Sensométrie et
Chimiométrie, BP 82225, 44322 Nantes Cedex 03, France. E-mail:
bertrand@enitiaa-nantes.fr
cIngénierie des
Matériaux Polymères / Laboratoire des Matériaux
Macromoléculaires, INSA de Lyon (CNRS, UMR 5627), 20 Avenue Albert
Einstein, F-69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France. E-mail:
Jerome.Dupuy@insa-lyon.fr
dLaboratoire des Matériaux
Polymères et des biomatériaux, UCBL, (UMR CNRS 5627), 43, bd du
11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France. E-mail:
gilbert.lachenal@univ-lyon1.fr
X-ray fluorescence spectrometry: a fast and versatile
technique for the analysis of geological samples (1132 kB)
Tim S. Brewer
and Peter K. Harvey
Department of Geology, University of Leicester,
Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK. E-mail: tsb5@le.ac.uk
Breath analysis for medical diagnosis and therapeutic
monitoring (189 kB)
Anton Amann,a,d Alex
Schmid,a,b Sabine Scholl-Bürgi,c Stefan
Telserb and Hartmann
Hinterhuberb
aDepartment of Anesthesia and General
Intensive Care, Innsbruck Medical University, A-6020 Innsbruck,
Austria
bDepartment of Psychiatry, Sleep Laboratory, Innsbruck
Medical University, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
cClinical
Department of General Paediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University, A-6020
Innsbruck, Austria
dDepartment of Environmental Sciences,
ETH-Hönggerberg, PO Box 150, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Detecting nitrofuran metabolites in animal products
using LC/MS/MS (211 kB)
Lutz Hartiga and Kristin von
Czapiewskib
aEurofins, Wiertz-Eggert-Jörissen
GmbH, Stenzelring 14b, 21107 Hamburg, Germany
bApplied
Biosystems, Applera Deutschland GmbH, Franfurter Straße 129 B, 64293
Darmstadt, Germany
Micro-spectroscopy – shedding light on rock
formation (216 kB)
Simon FitzGerald
Horiba Jobin Yvon Ltd, 2
Dalston Gardens, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 1BQ, UK. E-mail:
simon.fitzgerald@jobinyvon.co.uk
Understanding the role of Se in health using mass
spectrometry (984 kB)
Heidi Goenaga-Infante and Mike Sargent
LGC
Limited, Queens Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 OLY, UK. E-mail:
ms@lgc.co.uk
Study of annatto from Bixa orellana seeds: an
application of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (2538
kB)
Carla Bittencourt, Marcella P. Felicissimo, Jean-Jacques Pireaux and
Laurent Houssiau
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Spectroscopie
Electronique (LISE), Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix,
University of Namur, 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
NIR spectroscopy explores the mysteries of acupuncture
(789 kB)
Gerhard Litscher
Biomedical Engineering and Research in
Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz,
Auenbruggerplatz 36, A-8036 Graz, Austria. E-mail:
gerhard.litscher@meduni-graz.at; http://litscher.at; http://litscher.info
The ICP-ToF mass spectrometer: an alternative for
elemental analysis (776 kB)
Erwin Hoffmanna and Christian
Lüdkeb
aGOS - Gesellschaft zur Förderung
angewandter Optik, Optoelektronik, Quantenelektronik und Spektroskopie eV,
Rudower Chaussee 29, 12489 Berlin, Germany. E-mail:
hoffmann@ansci.de
bISAS–Institute for Analytical Sciences,
Department Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Unlocking the secrets of ancient glass technology using
ToF-SIMS (509 kB)
Frank Rutten,* Julian Hendersona
and David Briggs
School of Pharmacy and Centre for Surface Chemical
Analysis, aDepartment of Archaeology, School of Humanities,
University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD,
UK
*Correspondence to: Frank Rutten, School of Pharmacy,
University of Nottingham University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. E-mail:
frank.rutten@nottingham.ac.uk
2004
Trilinear fluorescence spectroscopy (444 kB)
Mikael
Kubista, Jahan Ghasemi, Björn Sjögreen and Amin Forootan
MultiD
Analyses AB, Göteborg, Sweden. E-mail: info@multid.se
XPS surface analysis: imaging and spectroscopy of metal
and polymer surfaces (622 kB)
Antonella Rossi,a,b Bernhard
Elsenera and Nicholas D. Spencerb
aDepartment of
Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Cagliari, Campus of
Monserrato, 09100 Cagliari, Italy bLaboratory for Surface Science and
Technology, Department of Materials, ETH-Hönggerberg,
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland. E-mail:
rossi@vaxca1.unica.it, antonella.rossi@mat.ethz.ch.
http://dipcia.unica.it/superf/ and http://www.surface.mat.ethz.ch
High-resolution infrared spectroscopy for in situ
industrial process monitoring (431 kB)
Philip Martina,c and
Robert Holdsworthb
aDepartment of Chemical
Engineering, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK. E-mail:
p.a.martin@umist.ac.uk
bTDL Sensors Ltd, UVL, 70–72
Sackville Street, Manchester, UK. E-mail:
r.holdsworth@tdlsensors.co.uk
cFrom 1 October 2004, School of
Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester
Killer wallpaper ( kB)
Andy Meharg
School of
Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St Machar
Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, Scotland
Technological advances in terahertz pulsed systems bring
far-infrared spectroscopy into the spotlight (354 kB)
Philip F. Taday
and David A. Newnham
TeraView Limited, 302/304 Cambridge Science Park,
Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WG, UK. E-mail: philip.taday@teraview.com
Total internal reflection Raman spectroscopy (507
kB)
Phillip R. Greene and Colin D. Bain
Department of Chemistry,
University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford,
OX1 3TA, UK
The prediction of 1H NMR chemical shifts in
organic compounds (240 kB)
Raymond J. Abraham and Mehdi
Mobli
Chemistry Department, The University of Liverpool, PO Box 147,
Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
Highlight Article: LC-NMR/MS (354 kB)
Steve
Down
HD Science Limited, 16 Petworth Avenue, Toton, Nottingham NG9 6JF,
UK
MEMS technology moves process spectroscopy into a new
dimension (162 kB)
Richard A. Crocombe
Axsun Technologies, Inc., 1
Fortune Drive, Billerica, MA 01821, USA
Method development for ultra-trace quantification and
isotope ratio measurement of uranium in urine (122 kB)
J.
Mortona and Simon M. Nelmsb
aBiological
Monitoring, Health and Safety Laboratory, Broad Lane, Sheffield, S3 7HQ,
UK
bThermo Electron Corporation, Ion Path, Road Three, Winsford,
Cheshire, CW7 3BX, UK
Mass spectrometry as a novel tool in protein structural
biology (519 kB)
Robert H.H. van den Heuvel* and Albert J.R.
Heck
Department of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry, Bijvoet Center for
Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Polymer characterisation by spectroscopic imaging: infrared
and electron microscopy: a good match (384 kB)
Peter
Wilhelm,a Boril Chernev,a Peter Pölt,a
Gerald Kothleitner,a Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn,b Gisela
Pompe,b Nikola Johnerc and Alexander
Piryc
aResearch Institute for Electron Microscopy,
Graz University of Technology; Steyrergasse 17, A-8010 Graz, Austria. E-mail:
peter.wilhelm@tugraz.at
bInstitute of Polymer Research Dresden;
Hohe Straße 6, D-01069 Dresden, Germany
cBruker Optik GmbH,
Rudolf-Plank-Str. 27, D-76275 Ettlingen, Germany
Study of the evolution of colour during the maceration
process of cherries in liquor: an application of visible spectroscopy (251
kB)
Gabriel Pinto and Isabel Paz Departamento de Ingeniería
Química Industrial y del Medio Ambiente, E.T.S.I. Industriales,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, José Gutiérrez Abascal
2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Estimation of prediction uncertainty for a multivariate
calibration model (188 kB)
N.M. Faber,a,* F.H.
Schreutelkampb and H.W.
Vedderc
aChemometry Consultancy, Rubensstraat 7,
6717 VD Ede, The Netherlands
bAbbott International, Quality
Assurance, Rieteweg 21, 8041 AJ Zwolle, The Netherlands
cBlgg
Oosterbeek, Mariendaal 8, PO Box 115, 6860 AC Oosterbeek, The
Netherlands
2003
Raman analyses and “smart” imaging of
nanophases and nanosized materials (1487 kB)
Philippe Colomban
LADIR-UMR 7075 CNRS & Université P. & M. Curie, 2 rue Henry
Dunant, 94320 Thiais, France
A
bright source for infrared microspectroscopy: synchrotron radiation (1060
kB)
Paul Dumas LURE, centre Universitaire Paris Sud, BP 34, F-91898 Orsay
Cédex, France
Mark J. TobinCCLRC Daresbury Laboratories,
Warrington, Cheshire WA4 4AD, UK
Microwave induced plasma torches for on-line combustion
gas analysis (152 kB)
E.A.H. Timmermans and J.J.A.M. van der
Mullen* Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of
Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands. E-mail address
j.j.a.m.v.d.mullen@tue.nl
Imaging X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy using microchannel
plate X-ray optics (512 kB)
G.J. Price, G.W. Fraser, J.F. Pearson, I.B.
Hutchinson, A.D. Holland, J. Nussey, D. Vernon, D. Pullan and K. Turner
Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK. E-mail: gwf@star.le.ac.uk
Infrared and Raman spectroscopic imaging in biosciences
(403 kB)
David Chenery and Hannah Bowring Smith & Nephew Group
Research Centre, York Science Park, Heslington, York YO10 5DF, UK
Cation mass spectrometry: towards an optimisation of SIMS
analyses performed in the MCsx+ mode (409 kB)
T.
Wirtz and H.-N. Migeon Laboratoire d’Analyse des Matériaux,
Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann, 162A, av. de la Faïencerie,
L-1511 Luxembourg, wirtzt@crpgl.lu
Olive oil as seen by NMR and chemometrics (512 kB)
Luisa Mannina,a,b Anatoli P. Sobolevb and Annalaura
Segreb
aUniversity of Molise, Faculty of
Agriculture, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
bInstitute of Chemical
Methodologies, CNR, 00016 Monterotondo Staz., Rome, Italy
Glow discharge mass spectrometry in nuclear research
(420 kB)
M. Betti and L. Aldave de las Heras European Commission, Joint
Research Centre, Institute for Transuranium Elements, PO Box 23 40, 76125
Karlsruhe, Germany
Raman spectroscopy: about chips and stress (2015
kB)
Ingrid De Wolf IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Superconducting magnets: at the heart of NMR (179
kB)
Alan Street Technical Director, Oxford Instruments
Superconductivity
Chemical imaging of pharmaceuticals by time-of-flight
secondary ion mass spectrometry (327 kB)
S.Y. Luk,a N.
Patela and M.C. Daviesb
aMolecular
Profiles Ltd, 1 Faraday Building, Nottingham Science & Technology Park,
University Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2QP, UK. E-mail:
sluk@molprofiles.co.uk
bLaboratory of Biophysics and Surface
Analysis, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Ultrasonic spectroscopy for material analysis.
Recent advances (285 kB)
Vitaly Buckin
Department of Chemistry,
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Breda
O’Driscoll and Cormac Smyth
Ultrasonic Scientific, Block 1, Richview
Office Park, Clonskeagh, Dublin 4, Ireland
In collaboration with Arno C.
Alting and Ronald W. Visschers, Wageningen Centre for Food Sciences (WCFS),
Wageningen, The Netherlands
2002
ICP-MS: determination of long-lived radionuclides
(343 kB)
J. Sabine Becker Central Department of Analytical Chemistry,
Research Centre Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany
Extracting Raman spectra from highly fluorescent samples
with “Scissors” (SSRS, Shifted-Subtracted Raman Spectroscopy)
(151 kB)
S.E.J. Bell,a* E.S.O. Bourguignon,a A.
O’Grady,a J. Villaumiea and A.C.
Dennisb
aSchool of Chemistry, The Queen’s
University of Belfast, Belfast, BT9 5AG, Northern Ireland,
UK
bAvalon Instruments Ltd, 10 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 5BN,
Northern Ireland, UK
Investigating the curing of amino resins with TGA-MS and
TGA-FT-IR (176 kB)
Dipl. Chem. FH Ch. Schanzer and Prof. Dr H.G.
Bührer Department of Chemistry, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Winterthur (ZHW), CH-8401 Winterthur, Switzerland
Light and sound—photoacoustic spectroscopy (288
kB)
C. Haisch and R. Niessner Institute of Hydrochemistry, Technical
University of Munich, Marchioninistrasse 17, D-81377 Munich, Germany. E-mail:
Christoph.Haisch@ch.tum.de
Micro-Raman technique for phase analysis on archaeological
ceramics (181 kB)
Angela Zoppi, Cristiana Lofrumento, Emilio Mario
Castellucci and Maria Grazia Migliorini Dipartimento di Chimica, Polo
Scientifico – Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, 50019
Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
Port wine spectral monitoring (332 kB)
Luis
Oliveira and Manuel Pais Clemente CETO – Centro de Ciências e
Tecnologias Ópticas, Rua Caldas Xavier, Nº38, 6º E, 4150
Porto, Portugal. E-mail: ceto@google.pt
Performances of spectroscopic methods for tributyltin (TBT)
determination in the 10 years of the EU-SM&T organotin programme (45
kB)
Roberto Morabitoa and Philippe Quevauvillerb
aENEA-PROT – Via Anguillarese, 301, 00060, Rome, Italy
bEuropean Commission, Rue de la Loi 200, BE-1049 Brussels,
Belgium
NMR: still listening to whispering hydrogens? What else do
they tell us 50 years after their discovery? (367 kB)
Marion Menzel and
Bernhard Blümich Institut für Technische Chemie und
Makromolekulare Chemie, RWTH Aachen, Worringerweg 1, D-52056 Aachen,
Germany
Near infrared spectroscopy: the practical chemical imaging
solution (246 kB)
Frederick W. Koehler IV, Eunah Lee, Linda H. Kidder
and E. Neil Lewis* Spectral Dimensions, Inc., 3416 Olandwood Ct,
Suite 210 Olney, MD 20832, USA. E-mail: nlewis@spectraldimensions.com
Determination of volatile sulphur compounds in mouth air
(238 kB)
Julio Rodríguez, Rosario Pereiro and Alfredo
Sanz-Medel* Departamento de Química Física y
Analítica, Facultad de Química, Julian Clavería 6, 33006
Oviedo, Spain. E-mail: asm@sauron.quimica.uniovi.es
Theory and principles of near infrared spectroscopy
(364 kB)
Franklin E. Barton, II USDA-Agricultural Research Service,
Richard B. Russell Agricultural Research Center, PO Box 5677, Athens, GA
30604-567, USA
2001
Commercial approaches to the certification of reference
materials for environmental analysis (1825 kB)
Peter J.
Jenks,a* Robert D. Rucinskib and Henryka
Jerzakc a“the Jenks’ Partnership”,
Newhaven House, Alderbury, SP5 3AZ, UK, bRT Corporation, PO Box
1346, Laramie, Wyoming, USA, cInstytut Przemyslu Organicznego (IPO),
ul. Annopol 6, PL-03 236 Warsaw, Poland
Speciation analysis of organotin compounds by
HPLC-ICP-MS (110 kB)
Ben Fairman and Raimund Wahlen, Specialist
Techniques Group, LGC (Teddington) Ltd, Queens Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11
0LY, UK
New Certified Reference Materials for the determination of
photometric accuracy in UV spectrophotometry (1080 kB)
John P. Hammond,
Optiglass Ltd, 52/54 Fowler Road, Hainault, IG6 3UT, UK
Optimising ICP-MS for the determination of trace metals
in high matrix samples (217 kB)
Ed McCurdy* and Don Potter,
Agilent Technologies, Lakeside, Cheadle Royal Business Park, Stockport,
Cheshire SK8 3GR, UK. E-mail: ed_mccurdy@agilent.com,
don_potter@agilent.com
From time to time we asked for copies of older articles. If we are to able to, we are pleased to supply these and will post copies here for the benefit of the spectroscopic community.
1995
Fifty categories of ordinate error in Fourier transform
spectroscopy (110 kB)
J.R. Bircha and F.J.J.
Clarkeb
aJB Research, 9 Clifton Terrace,
Cliftonville, Dorking, Surrey RH4 2JG, UK
bDivision of Electrical
Science, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0LW,
UK
Direct solids analysis of geological and related
non-conducting materials using spark ablation and slurry nebulisation (133
kB)
I.B. Brennera, A. Zanderb, S. Kimb and
A. Hendersonb
aGeological Survey of Israel, 30
Malkhe Street, Jerusalem, 95501, Israel
bE.L. Ginzton Research
Centre, Varian Associates Inc., 3075 Hansen Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304,
USA
Biochemical applications of FT-IR spectroscopy (119
kB)
Arthur M. A. Pistorius
Department of Biochemistry, University of
Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1994
Estimation of bio-diesel in lubricating oil using Fourier
transform infrared spectroscopy combined with a mid-infrared fibre optic
probe (517 kB)
Houtan Sadeghi-Jorabchi,a Victoria M.E.
Wood,a Fiona Jeffrey,a Andrea Bruster-Davies,a
Nikki Loha and David Coombsb
aCastrol
International Technology Centre, Whitchurch Hill, Pangbourne, Reading,
Berkshire RG8 7QR, UK
bGraseby Specac Limited, River House,
Lagoon Road, St Mary Cray, Orpington, Kent BR5 3QX, UK
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