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…
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AFM infrared spectroscopy boosts resistant bacteria studies
ATOMIC force microscopy (AFM) has been the main analytical tool at the laboratory of physics of living matter at EPFL Switzerland, in the lab’s research into the mechanical properties of proteins, cells, and tissues. Now an Anasys NanoIR AFM-IR system…
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…
Arbitrary polarisation control added to nanoscale IR spectroscope
IN THE quest to develop new high-performance polymers, one area of interest is to consider the orientation of the material at a molecular level. Speaking at Pittcon 2012 in Orlando, Florida, this week, Professor Bruce Chase of the University of…
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,…