A mass spectrometer is a complicated and expensive piece of equipment -- so complicated and so expensive, in fact, that most undergraduate chemistry students never get a chance to use one. Now ...

At $1 million, many schools cannot afford the latest spectrometry equipment to help students conduct experiments such as determining the composition of a polymer, detecting the presence of cocaine in ...

For decades, the ability to visualize the chemical composition of materials, whether for diagnosing a disease, assessing food ...

Bruker Optics announces the launch of the MOBILE-IR II – a portable, battery-powered Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer that delivers the high spectral performance of a laboratory ...

The Mass Spectrometry Core Laboratory has 1,000 square feet of laboratory space dedicated to providing analytical capabilities to support the Michigan Tech mission. The laboratory provides advanced ...

Researchers in the US unveil details of a tiny diffractive imaging spectrometer. Combining integrated optical and free-space components is the key to designing a new generation of miniature imaging ...

The UC Davis device exploits the properties of photon-trapping surface textures (PTST), surface modifications that enhance the light absorption capabilities of silicon photodiodes in the near-IR range ...

In the recent decade, mass spectrometry has become the method of choice for certain laboratory tests, like steroid hormones, pain management drugs, and some small proteins/peptides analysis. As a ...

For decades, bulky spectrometers have been the main tools for understanding how things are made of chemicals (a thing called ...