X-ray @ spectroscopyNOW
The X-ray spectrometry channel covers all aspects of research into techniques using X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and crystallography used in material science, protein analysis, art and archaeology research, environmental analysis, biotechnology and pharmaceutical analysis.
Monthly Highlight
Last Month's Most Accessed Feature: Photosynthesis - Study sheds new light
Caltech chemists believe they can now explain one of the last remaining mysteries concerning the process of photosynthesis in which light powers chemical conversion of carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen. The work is based on synthetic, spectroscopic, and electrochemical studies, including X-ray spectroscopic work, and might one day lead to a range of novel photocatalysts that could be used to drive the water-splitting reactions in a synthetic analogue of photosynthesis.
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On-demand Webinar: Solving routine challenges – new ICP-MS technology for increased sample throughput
This webinar provides attendees with an introduction to the iCAP Q ICP-MS including an exploration of the technical innovations and a review of performance data using essential application examples.
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X-ray diffraction has been used to study the low-temperature oxidation of the important feedstock chemical ethylene over platinum nanoparticles supported on mesoporous silica, according to a study published in Angewandte Chemie.
Journal Highlight: X-ray fluorescence analysis of Co, Ni, Pd, Ag, and Au in the scrapped printed-circuit-board ash
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May 7, 2013
A validated method for the measurement of Co, Ni, Pd, Ag, and Au in ash derived from scrapped printed circuit boards used X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and gave similar results to those from atomic absorption spectrometry.
Makoto Fujita of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Kari Rissanen of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have used a porous substrate to bring order to an uncrystallisable target molecule for X-ray diffraction studies, which precludes the need to develop a method for producing crystals of the material. The technique allows nanogram quantities of the target compound to be analysed, the researchers say.
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The 1962 book, Fifty Years of X-Ray Diffraction, dedicated to the International Union of Crystallography on the occasion of the commemoration meeting in Munich, July 1962, by P.P. Ewald (editor), and numerous crystallographers has been digitized and put on the web as a free site by the ICU.
X-ray Techniques: Overview
Sep 28, 2005
In this article, the late Ron Jenkins, formerly of the International Center for Diffraction Data provides a brief but comprehensive overview of modern X-ray techniques.
NMR and X-ray Crystallography Glossary
Sep 28, 2005
Journals
X-Ray Spectrometry is devoted to the rapid publication of papers dealing with the theory and application of x-ray spectrometry using electron, x-ray photon, proton, γ and γ-x sources.
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Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, 2 Volume Set
Nina Berova, Prasad L. Polavarapu, Koji Nakanishi, Robert W. Woody
May 25, 2012
News
Vacancy: Assistant Editor for ChemistryViews
May 8, 2013
Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award, 2014
May 8, 2013
Blog
Breakfast with Waters
Jon Evans
May 15, 2013
Waters will be hosting six complimentary breakfast seminars during next month's American Society of Mass Spectrometry annual conference in Minneapolis.
Videos
Pittcon 2013 Editors' Gold Award – Senova Systems
Date: Mar 28, 2013
Eileen Skelly Frame from Instrument News talks with Senova CEO, Lee Leonard, about the pHit calibration-free pH meter which won this year's Pittcon Editors' Award Gold Medal.
