Nanotechnology is advancing tools likened to Star Trek's "tricorder" that perform on-the-spot chemical analysis for a range of applications including medical testing, explosives detection and food safety.
A mercury telluride cadmium (MTC) infrared detector is now available for the Rheonaut module, which pairs rheological analysis from the Thermo Scientific HAAKE MARS rheometer with infrared spectroscopy
Infrared spectroscopy is one of the few analytical techniques considered by the forensic science community to have the highest discriminating power required to provide confirmatory evidence about the chemical composition of a material.
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is used extensively to characterize the chemical composition of trace evidence such as paints, fibers and adhesives as well as seized drugs and related chemicals. Thermo Fisher has recently introduced the Thermo Scientific™ iS™50 ATR module, a novel, extended-range attenuated total reflectance (ATR) module that is integrated into the Nicolet™ iS50 FT-IR spectrometer.
The Supermini200 wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometer combines the advantages of traditional WDXRF elemental analysis systems in a smaller, more economical package.
