Raman Spectroscopy news

Renishaw’s Raman seminars are becoming increasingly popular, attracting world-class speakers and providing excellent knowledge-sharing and networking opportunities.

The RA800-series of OEM benchtop instrument solutions. Based on a generic platform design, these high performance instruments can be configured to provide tailored chemical analysis solutions across a range of application areas.

Bring your samples to life with the new 3D fast imaging capability of the inVia Raman microscope. New inVia systems—with the StreamLineHR™ imaging option—can now collect and display Raman data from within transparent materials. This provides users with full 3D visualisation of their samples.

Renishaw introduced its new integrated Raman AFM package—developed in collaboration with Bruker Nano—at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston, MA, with acclaim from delegates.

Renishaw announces the lucky winner of an Apple iPad 2 tablet following the inside Raman seminar at the Natural History Museum earlier this year.

inVia Raman microscope imaging capabilities

Raman spectroscopy came under the spotlight recently at the Natural History Museum in London, when Renishaw held its 2011 ‘inside Raman’ seminar in the Museum’s Flett theatre on 26th and 27th September.

Microspheres - antibiotic carriers for the direct delivery of drugs to wound sites. Biodegradable microspheres are ideal drug carriers for antibiotics and for their direct application to sites of musculo-skeletal surgery. Understanding drug carrier formation and drug release efficiency is of paramount importance in optimising the design of drug delivery mechanisms.

Simple multicellular organisms, such as nematode, zebrafish, and fruit flies, play a critical role in translational medicine. Their ease of breeding, rapid turnover rates, simple cellular organisation, and transparency make them ideal for understanding early developmental pathways, gene functions, and human diseases.

A spectroscopic fingerprint from the microbial sample provides quantitative and qualitative information which can be used to characterise, discriminate and identify microorganisms, in both the bulk environment and at the single cell level.

Following the success of the ‘inside Raman’ event last year at Warwick University, Renishaw’s Raman spectroscopy team will be hosting ‘inside Raman’ seminars at the Natural History Museum, London, UK, on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th September 2011.

Motor manufacturers regularly announce the release of novel battery powered electric vehicles. Compared to the lithium-ion batteries in cell phones or notebook PCs, the batteries used in cars require very high output power, short charging time, long life, excellent safety, light weight, and low production cost. This translates into a need for higher-performing battery components made from chemically and structurally robust materials.

PRAMAC Swiss SA, part of the PRAMAC multinational group, began producing thin film solar panels in July 2009. Their plant, based in Riazzino, is the largest solar panel production facility in Switzerland. It produces Micromorph® panels that use multi-layer thin film technology: active hydrogenated silicon layers (Si:H) and transparent conductive oxide (TCO) contact layers are deposited on a glass substrate by chemical vapour deposition.