spectroscopy News
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2014 RamanFest Organizers with Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus, “The Queen of Carbon”
Boston in June, and the Harvard campus, with its ivy covered walls and colonial atmosphere is a great place to visit. The weather was both beautiful, on Thursday, and wet on Friday. But the high quality of the event was consistent making RamanFest a resounding success.! The RamanFest Conference, held on Thursday, June 12th through Friday, June 13th, was co-sponsored by Harvard University. There ...
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Best practice: Screening and QC testing of petroleum products and fuels
Screening and quality control of petroleum products and fuels can be a tedious and expensive process when performed with traditional methods. A faster and more efficient approach utilizing Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is presented in a free webinar by Metrohm in association with Digital Refining on June 16, 2021. Participants will get an overview what NIRS is, how to implement this ...
By Metrohm AG
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Making your quality control of hydraulic and lube oils more efficient
Monitoring the quality of hydraulic and/or lube oils is critical to prevent premature wear of any kind of machinery. In a free webinar on October 27, 2022, Metrohm will take a closer look at this topic focusing on the combination of titration (potentiometric, thermometric, coulomtetric Karl Fischer titration) and Vis-Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (Vis-NIRS). Participants in this webinar ...
By Metrohm AG
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Spectroscopy Probes the Energy-Level Landscape of Solar Cells
A new spectroscopic method developed by researchers at Heidelberg University could enable scientists to study the physical principles of organic photovoltaics with extreme precision to better understand how energetic losses occur. The new method combines ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy and argon cluster etching to allow scientists to directly visualize the vertical energetic landscape in ...
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NIRS: Evaluating the Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP) in seconds
Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP) is an important parameter in biogas production as it helps producers to assess the efficiency of the anaerobic digestion process for specific substrates. With the NIRS DS2500 Analyzer, users can determine BMP in a few seconds helping them to optimize waste stock management for a maximum methane yield. The NIRS DS2500 Analyzer uses Near-Infrared Spectroscopy ...
By Metrohm AG
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Arktis to help solve spent nuclear fuel storage issue
Arktis is supporting a new project funded by the US Department of Energy to build and demonstrate a prototype detector device capable of unambiguously verifying stored, spent nuclear fuel. The new system will non-intrusively check Dry Casks, used to store high-level radioactive waste at fuel storage installations, in order to monitor their contents. Arktis will collaborate on the new ...
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Carbon materials
Due to properties such as, e.g., mechanical strength, high electrical and thermal conductivity, optical transparency, and more, carbon materials have become the subject of research for many applications. All over the world research laboratories are investigating carbon materials, such as graphene or carbon nanotubes, to develop new applications or to help improve existing technology. Metrohm ...
By Metrohm AG
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New Metrohm brochure and webpage «Biofuel analysis»
Metrohm has been a solution provider to the surface finishing and electronics industry for many years. The new brochure «Surface finishing» presents applications and instrumentation for quality control of process baths applied in surface finishing and PCB production – including monitoring of waste water. The brochure can be ordered free of charge and is also available on ...
By Metrohm AG
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Alfa Chemistry Demonstrates Ability for Surface Analysis to Facilitate Materials Testing for Alternative Energy Industry
As we put 2021 behind us and celebrate the coming of 2022, the US-based chemical supplier Alfa Chemistry never forgets its mission to bring the most cost-effective yet high-quality chemicals and materials to customers worldwide. Its newly launched sub-website specially offers a wide array of alternative and renewable energy materials. In addition to that, the company today announces it is also ...
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Efficient Clean Coal Technology
Among a lot of interesting topics being discussed at SETA 2016, reducing emission and improving efficiency in coal fired plants is among a great focus. Mr. Ajit Nambiar, Vice President, Power and Gas Sales, Siemens Pte Ltd, Singapore shared a case study to the audience how to optimize combustion using laser absorption spectroscopy technology as the innovative and cost-effective solution developed ...
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NREL Research Pinpoints Promise of Polycrystalline Perovskites
A team of scientists from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) determined that surface recombination limits the performance of polycrystalline perovskite solar cells. Mengjin Yang (left), Kai Zhu, Ye Yang, Matt Beard, David Moore and Elisa Miller are co-authors of a new paper in Nature Energy about perovskites. Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL Considerable ...
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Alfa Chemistry Launches Testing Services on Toys, Semiconductor Materials, and Plastic Films
Material testing is a way to examine the exact chemical composition of samples, which has become increasingly important and often serves as a strategy for failure identification while in use. Alfa Chemistry, a chemical product and service provider, has been conducting analytical testing for various materials utilizing its advanced research laboratory. Earlier this month, the company finally ...
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NREL Reveals Potential for Capturing Waste Heat via Nanotubes
A finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses waste heat, according to researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The research could help guide the manufacture of thermoelectric devices based on either single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) films or composites containing these ...
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Analytical News: T,C&A Lab Offers Insights on Carbon Fiber Testing
Carbon fiber materials, being extremely stiff, strong, and light, are increasingly used in many processes to create excellent composite building materials. To ensure the quality and integrity of such materials, Alfa Chemistry’s testing branch - T,C&A Lab, has recently announced to provide carbon fiber testing service for customers worldwide. Experts from Alfa Chemistry will offer ...
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NREL finds a way to give LEDs the green light
Light bulbs that last 100 years and fill rooms with brilliant ambiance may become a reality sooner rather than later, thanks to a National Renewable Energy Laboratory discovery. NREL scientists found a way to generate a tricky combination of green and red that may just prove to be the biggest boost for illumination since Edison's light bulb. Green isn't just a symbol of environmentalism, it is ...
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Intelligent and Portable Fuel Analysis
Grabner Instruments, a subsidiary of AMETEK, Inc. has introduced a new portable and highly versatile FTIR spectrometer for the fully automatic measurement of gasoline, diesel and biofuel blends. The MINISCAN IRXpert is the first completely portable fuel analyzer that combines superior scanning range and resolution with the advantages of mid-IR and near-IR spectroscopy for highest measurement ...
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Fuels from biomass: New technique can fast-track better ionic liquids for biomass pre-treatments
They’ve been dubbed “grassoline” - second generation biofuels made from inedible plant material, including fast-growing weeds, agricultural waste, sawdust, etc. - and numerous scientific studies have shown them to be prime candidates for replacing gasoline to meet our transportation needs. However, before we can begin to roll down the highways on sustainable, carbon-neutral grassoline, numerous ...
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Cheap, flexible solar
Original story at MIT News Solar cells made out of lead sulfide quantum dots could eventually offer a cheaper, more flexible alternative to ones made using silicon, but they are currently much less efficient. However, altering the chemical composition of quantum-dot solar cells offers a way of tuning them to reach higher efficiencies, MIT physics graduate student Patrick R. Brown says. "Instead ...
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Uhasselt and Other Solliance Partners Contribute to 48th IEEE PVSC
Two researchers, affiliated with UHasselt, imec and Solliance, will present their latest results at the 48th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 48), June 20-25, 2021. These two talks and the work included are part of the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 715027. This project focuses on the development of a novel ...
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Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
Talking about perovskites, the word stability or lifetime soon comes up. A lot of energy has been invested in the research to arrive at stable perovskite based solar cells. New chemical composition, new layers and new barrier technologies combined made these solar cells more resilient to oxygen and moisture. The milestone of one thousand hours in at 85 degrees Celsius and 85% relative humidity is ...
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