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Multimodal imaging is being used by scientists to study skin ageing through the interaction of metabolism, cellular communication and cellular quality control in skin ageing accelerated by environmental stress.
Strong investment in photonics will help us fight infectious diseases that kill an unimaginable number of people and prepare us against future pandemics, says Dr Jürgen Popp of the Leibniz Center for Photonics in Infection Research (LPI) that is currently under construction in Jena.
David Birch has been awarded the 2020 Dennis Gabor Award by the Institute of Physics (IOP). His contributions in the fluorescence sector included research on techniques, multi-disciplinary applications and developing instrumentation for measuring fluorescence lifetimes.
Fluorescence spectroscopy can identify the geographical origins of wines originating from three wine regions of Australia and from Bordeaux in France with 100 % accuracy.
Chinese customers of PicoQuant will benefit from a website in Chinese and a local presence.
Tohoku University researchers have improved a method for probing semiconducting crystals with light to detect defects and impurities.
Fluorescence spectroscopy of biomarkers in urine can track malignant melanoma progression or treatment response.
A type of photothermal spectroscopy is being used to measure thermal energy to understand more about the processes of energy-converting systems like leaves during photosynthesis.
Applications are invited for these prestigious awards administered by the Association of British Spectroscopists (ABS) Trust.
A new research project in partnership between academia, companies and the Netherlands Forensic Institute to develop ways to chain analytical techniques together to gain complementary information.
Researchers from University of Tsukuba develop a new method that reveals the unique fluorescence signatures of individual cells in mixtures of bacteria, fungi and yeast.
Shimadzu has opened a branch office in Sweden, which will market Shimadzu’s full range of analytical instrumentation solutions.
By being resident on-site at a hydrothermal vent for 12 months, InVADER will capture transient events and provide unprecedented spatial and temporal access to a deep ocean hydrothermal system.
Larger semiconductor crystals analysed with an integrating sphere and photoluminescence spectroscopy
Tohoku University researchers use an integrating sphere and photoluminescence spectroscopy to measure the electronic and optical properties of large semiconducting crystals.
The ABS Trust is seeking applications for the Gordon F. Kirkbright bursary award and the new Edward Steers bursary, both open to early career scientists.
While spectroscopic measurements are normally averaged over myriad molecules, a new method developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich provides precise information about the interaction of individual molecules with their environment.
Machine learning techniques using a combination of the layer clustering and decision tree methods aids prediction of spectra.
A study recently conducted at the circular dichroism beamline (B23) at Diamond Light Source could pave the way for a new forensic DNA profiling technique.
Applications for this prestigious award are invited by 30 November 2018.