Tag: Anasys Instruments

Nanoscale mass spectrometry boosts painting conservation

THE STUDY of cross-sections of heritage paintings has benefitted from a ‘breakthrough’ in atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based nanoscale mass spectrometry, reports Anasys Instruments. Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the Getty Conservation Institute developed a variation…

Nanoscale thermal analysis to improve drug delivery

AT THE University of East Anglia, UK , post-doctoral researcher Jonathan Moffat is studying the delivery of drugs with poor water solubility, and looking in particular at the characterisation of delivery systems.   His team creates solid dispersions using a variety…

Understanding polymer crystallisation through AFM-IR

GROUND-breaking work on the characterisation of sub-micron polymer domains using AFM-IR has been published in the October 2011 issue of Applied Spectroscopy, a monthly journal published by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Written by Isao Noda of Procter and Gamble,…