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1 week ago | 
spectroscopyonline.com | Will Wetzel
In a recent study conducted by Kohei Tahara, a professor at Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Tahara and his team explored a new alternative for patients suffering from oral mucositis (1). This new development is a new film formulation of polaprezinc (PLZ), a zinc-based compound with anti-inflammatory and mucosal-protective properties (1).
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1 week ago | 
spectroscopyonline.com | Will Wetzel
A recent study explored how real-time fermentation monitoring can be improved by Raman spectroscopy models. The study, which was led by Marieke E. Klijn from Delft University of Technology, shows how supplementing calibration data sets with a single compound structure enhances the transferability of partial least-squares (PLS) quantification models across different fermentation processes (1). The findings of this study were published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (1).
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1 week ago | 
spectroscopyonline.com | Will Wetzel
In a recent study published in Talanta, a research team presented and tested out a new aluminum-based microwell platform that was designed to improve the performance of single-cell Raman spectroscopy (1).
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1 week ago | 
spectroscopyonline.com | Will Wetzel
Recently, a team of researchers, led by Ainara Pocheville from the Gaiker Technology Centre in Spain explored a new method for classifying and identifying different plastic types in the recycling of waste of electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) plastics.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectroscopyonline.com | Will Wetzel
This week, Spectroscopy published articles highlighting recent studies in several application areas, including pharmaceutical analysis, engineering, and environmental analysis. Key techniques highlighted in these articles include flow imaging microscopy (FIM), micro-particle-induced X-ray emission (micro-PIXE) spectroscopy, and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy.
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2 weeks ago | 
chromatographyonline.com | Will Wetzel
In part 5 of our conversation with Ralph Mead and his group, they talked about climate change and how it impacts carbon fluxes, describing the role of PFAS in these environments (1). In the final part of this interview, Mead and his group discuss the biggest challenges in mitigating the effects of PFAS right now. Here’s the final part of our conversation with the Mead Group at UNC Wilmington. Below is some of our conversation with Ralph Mead and his team.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectroscopyonline.com | Will Wetzel
On April 9th, Marama Labs, a scientific instrument start-up company with offices in Wellington, New Zealand, and Dublin, Ireland, announced in a press release that they have launched a new version of its new CloudSpec instrument. According to the company, this UV-vis spectrophotometer is designed to improve development times for nanoparticle drug formulations used in vaccines, cancer treatments, and gene therapies, addressing a need in the industry (1).
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2 weeks ago | 
spectroscopyonline.com | Will Wetzel
A recent study conducted by researchers from Southeast University in China investigated the effectiveness of a new method to improve pharmaceutical quality control. This study, which was led by Xiangwei Zhao of Southeast University in China, demonstrated how Raman spectroscopy, when combined with an optimized convolutional neural network (CNN), can accurately and rapidly identify culture media (1).
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2 weeks ago | 
chromatographyonline.com | Will Wetzel
In part 4 of our conversation with Ralph Mead and his group, they talked about the knowledge gaps that exist in understanding the long-term environmental transport of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) (1). In part 5 of this interview, they talk about climate change and how it impacts carbon fluxes, describing the role of PFAS in these environments. Below is some of our conversation with Ralph Mead and his team. To listen to their full remarks, watch the video below.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectroscopyonline.com | Will Wetzel
In a recent study, researchers from China investigated the unfolding of ovalbumin (OVA) within hydrogels, which helped them discover new information about the role of water structure in protein conformational changes. The findings of this study, which were published in the International Journal of Biological Molecules, reveal how near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy can contribute to protein and polymer analysis (1).
