Spectroscopy

A sneak preview of the 2016 SciX conference, taking place in Minneapolis in Spetember.

The newest addition to the popular ‘10 ways to…’ series of educational papers provides practical guidance on developing high performance suspension products with enhanced consumer appeal. ‘10 ways to...control rheology by changing particle properties’ explores how controlling particle characteristics, such as particle size distribution, concentration and zeta potential, enables formulators to engineer suspension performance. Suspensions are used in the formulation of a wide range of every day products from medicines, drinks and foodstuffs to paints, inks and coatings. This paper is therefore valuable to formulators working across a wide range of industries.

Researchers at the Dresden University of Technology can now determine the sex of a chicken before it hatches – in under a minute.

Near-infrared spectroscopy may allow non-invasive monitoring of premature babies

Using Raman spectroscopy to track hyaluronic acid permeation in skin

The Morphologi G3-ID enables simultaneous physical and chemical characterization of particle samples, enabling outlier particles to be identified as being part of a product formulation or genuine foreign particle contaminants.

The ideal solvent for a material may not provide a sufficient refractive index difference for light scattering detection. This example of a biodegradable polymer shows how SELS is used to increase dn/dc to give enhanced detection sensitivity

It’s important to have women role models as a woman scientist, but men can be fantastic and supportive role models to women as well

Sharing examples of successful female researchers with young people will help to encourage more women to pursue science as a career

Sexism isn’t necessarily about bad people; it’s about bad judgments that are based on a cultural lack of understanding