Infrared Spectroscopy / Ezine
Journal Highlight: ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and μ-EDXRF spectrometry monitoring of enamel erosion caused by medicaments used in the treatment of respiratory diseases
Date: Mar 5, 2018
Author: spectroscopyNOW
The erosive capacities of the four most commonly prescribed respiratory disease syrup medicaments on enamel have been estimated using micro-energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.
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Squid skin: Infrared biomimetic nanoparticles
Date: Mar 1, 2018
Author: David Bradley
Nanoparticles that mimic the properties of squid skin can modulate electromagnetic radiation in the visible to short-wave infrared region, according to US scientists.
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RNA world: IR reveals watery shell
Date: Feb 5, 2018
Author: David Bradley
Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy allows the time evolution of vibrational excitations to be mapped in the interaction of RNA with water molecules to reveal how water molecules at the nucleic acid's surface undergo tipping motions or librations.
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Journal Highlight: Feasibility of near infrared transmittance spectroscopy to predict fatty acid composition of commercial processed meat
Date: Feb 1, 2018
Author: spectroscopyNOW
Near infrared transmittance spectroscopy can be considered as a reliable method for predicting the main groups of fatty acids in processed meat products, whereas predictions of individual fatty acid are less reliable.
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Methane methods: IR reveals catalytic details
Date: Jan 8, 2018
Author: David Bradley
Infrared spectroscopy techniques and a quantum theory model have been used by an international team to investigate the nature of methane dissociation reactions on platinum. The results could offer a route map to novel catalysts for converting natural gas into higher chemicals.
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Journal Highlight: A functional near-Infrared spectroscopy study of trauma-related auditory and olfactory cues: Posttraumatic stress disorder or combat experience?
Date: Jan 1, 2018
Author: spectroscopyNOW
A combat-related PTSD symptom provocation paradigm using functional near-infrared spectroscopy has been used to elicit unique neurological responses across three groups: combat veterans with PTSD, combat veterans without PTSD, and nonmilitary participants without PTSD.
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Heat stack: Infra-red tracked in real-time
Date: Dec 1, 2017
Author: David Bradley
Researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, have tracked infrared energy in real-time as it flows through van der Waals stacks consisting of graphene encapsulated by the dielectric two-dimensional material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN).
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Journal Highlight: Winds in the middle cloud deck from the near-IR imaging by the Venus monitoring camera onboard Venus Express
Date: Nov 27, 2017
Author: spectroscopyNOW
The correlation approach has been applied to sequences of the near-IR images at 965 nm taken of the Venus cloud layer from the Venus Express orbiter to track cloud features and determine the wind field in the middle and lower cloud (49–57 km).
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Incommunicado and in pain: IR to the rescue
Date: Nov 1, 2017
Author: David Bradley
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) could offer hope to non-verbal patients who are suffering from pain allowing their carers and clinicians to observe episodes of pain even when the patient cannot communicate the problem.
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Journal Highlight: Triglyceride dependent differentiation of obesity in adipose tissues by FTIR spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics
Date: Oct 30, 2017
Author: spectroscopyNOW
Triglyceride bands in FTIR spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics methods have been used as sensitive diagnostic obesity-related biomarkers in subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissues.
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