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2024Theophilus Redwood Award- Frank VanhaeckeFrank Vanhaecke and the Atomic & Mass Spectrometry Research Group of Belgium’s Ghent University recently developed a novel method allowing for direct isotopic analysis of mercury (Hg) in solid samples without any prior sample treatment being performed. Read Interview
AES Mid-Career Award- Jason DwyerJason Dwyer of the University of Rhode Island has been named the recipient of the American Electrophoresis Society’s Mid-Career Award, which honors exceptional contributions to the field of electrophoresis, microfluidics, and related areas by an individual who is currently in the middle of their career. Read Interview
William F. Meggers Award- Ioan NotingherIoan Notingher and a team of researchers from the University of Nottingham and the University of London presented a non-destructive technique based on autofluorescence (AF) imaging and Raman spectroscopy for intra-operative assessment of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) excised in breast cancer surgery. Read Interview
ACS Award in Spectrochemical Analysis- Ji-Xin ChengJi-Xin Cheng, Moustakas Chair Professor of Photonics and Optoelectornics at Boston University. will be receiving the ACS Award in Spectrochemical Analysis award at this year’s SciX conference. Read Interview
Strock Award- Benjamin T. ManardPlatinum and platinum-based materials and compounds have been found essential for a variety of applications, resulting in their being identified as critical materials for ensuring a secure energy supply and a positive economic future. Platinum is used for catalysis in fuel cells, hydrogen production, petroleum refining, environmental benefits–in automotive catalytic converters, and for renewable energy technologies. A recent paper by Benjamin T. Manard of the Chemical Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) and associates describes an analytical procedure, single particle-inductively coupled plasma-time-of-flight-mass spectrometry (SP-ICP-TOF-MS), being utilized to determine the platinum-binding efficiency of protein-coated magnetic microparticles. Manard will be receiving the Lester W. Strock Award, given by the New England Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy in recognition of a selected publication of substantive research or application of analytical atomic spectrochemistry in the fields of earth science, life sciences, or stellar and cosmic sciences.
Craver Award- Conor L. EvansConor L. Evans of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (Charlestown, Massachusetts) and associates, seeing a need for a new method of chemical imaging that delivers a quick acquisition time, low background, high resolution, and high chemical sensitivity recently published a study demonstrating sparse spectral sampling stimulated Raman scattering (S4RS). This new method is an extension of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy that is particularly well suited for the imaging and quantification of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Read Interview2023NESAS and SAS Lester W. Strock Award - Maria Montes- Bayón Earlier this year, Spectroscopy spoke to Maria Montes-Bayón of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Oviedo (Asturias, Spain) regarding her work with single cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to study the uptake and apoptotic status of nanoplatinum (IV) treated cells, specifically selenized yeast.
The Coblentz Society Clara Craver Award - Ishan Barman The Coblentz Society created the Clara Carver Award to recognize young individuals who have made significant contributions in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy. The work may include any aspect of infrared (IR), terahertz (THz), or Raman spectroscopy in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy. This year’s recipient, Ishan Barman, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University with joint appointments in Oncology and Radiology and Radiological Science. Read Interview
AES Lifetime Achievement Award Winner - James P. Landers The AES Lifetime Achievement Award is given for exceptional career contributions to the fields of electrophoresis, electrokinetics, and related areas. This year’s recipient, James Landers of the University of Virginia, recently published (along with his colleagues) a paper illustrating a technique for fabricating electrophoretic microdevices for fluorescence detection. Read Interview
AES Mid-Career Achievement Award Winner - Robbyn K. Anand The AES Mid-Career Award recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of electrophoresis, microfluidics, and related areas by an individual who is currently in the middle of their career. This year’s recipient, Robbyn K. Anand, Suresh Faculty Fellow and Carlyle G. Caldwell Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Iowa State University, has, along with her group, developed methods for circulating tumor cell analysis, electrokinetic enrichment and separation of chemical species within water-in-oil droplets, and more sensitive bioanalysis at arrays of wireless bipolar electrodes. Read Interview
RSC Joseph Black Award Winner - Mathew Horrocks Mathew Horrocks, team leader of the group, is the 2023 recipient of The Joseph Black Prize, awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for the most meritorious contributions to any area of analytical chemistry made by an early career scientist. Horrocks shared his thoughts about his current work developing and using single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy techniques to study amyloid oligomers and their commonality regarding a variety of neurodegenerative disorders with Spectroscopy.
FACSS Charles Mann Awardee for Raman Spectroscopy - Jürgen Popp Popp is the recipient of the 2023 Charles Mann Award, presented to, as stated on the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) webpage, an individual who has demonstrated advancement(s) in the field of applied Raman spectroscopy, and/or demonstrated dedication to the advancement of the Raman spectroscopy program. Popp shared his thoughts about the technique with Spectroscopy.
Ellis R. Lippincott Award - Peter Griffiths Spectroscopy spoke to Griffiths about this honor, his career in general, and, specifically, about his recent work in measuring fine airborne particles within mining environments. This interview is part of an ongoing series of interviews with the winners of awards that are presented at the annual SciX conference, which will be held this year from October 8 through October 13, in Sparks, Nevada.
SAS and Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award - Johannes Pedarning The William F. Meggers Award was established in 1970 to honor its namesake, referred to by the National Institute of Standards and Technology on their website as “Dean of American Spectroscopists,” for his notable contributions to that field. This year’s recipient, Johannes Pedarnig of the Institute of Applied Physics at Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria) has recently investigated the optical emission of plasma on industrial steel samples utilizing laser ablation-spark discharge-optical emission spectroscopy (LA-SD-OES) and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).
The Coblentz Society Coblentz Award- Wei Xiong The Coblentz Society annually presents an award to an outstanding young molecular spectroscopist under the age of 40. This year’s recipient, Wei Xiong of the University of California, San Diego, is being honored for his work, as noted on the Coblentz Society webpage, “using and developing ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopic and imaging tools to reveal molecular structures and dynamics of materials, including ultrafast dynamics of polaritonic systems, guest molecule adsorptions in self-assembled materials, and femtosecond charge transfer dynamics on organic material interfaces.” Spectroscopy spoke to Xiong about his work and his feelings about receiving this award. 2022FACSS Charles Mann Awardee for Raman Spectroscopy - Igor Lednev In Episode #7 of the podcast "Analytically Speaking" (by LCGC and Spectroscopy), podcast host Jerry Workman speaks with Professor Igor K. Lednev who is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University at Albany at the State University of New York. Spectroscopy invited Professor Lednev to the Analytically Speaking podcast to discuss his research on the various applications of Raman spectroscopy for the identification and analysis of biological fluid stains used for forensic analysis.
ANACHEM Award - Joseph Loo Top-down mass spectrometry (TD-MS) of peptides and proteins results in product ions that can be correlated to the polypeptide sequence. Joseph Loo and colleagues at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed ClipMS, an algorithm assigning both terminal and internal fragments generated by TD-MS fragmentation, which can be used to locate various modifications on the protein sequence. Loo, who recently spoke to us about this work, is the 2022 recipient of the ANACHEM Award, presented annually at to an outstanding analytical chemist based on activities in teaching, research, administration or other activity which has advanced the art and science of the field.
The Coblentz Society Clara Craver Award - Wei Min Although single-cell multiparameter measurement has been increasingly recognized as a key technology toward systematic understandings of complex molecular and cellular functions in biological systems, it is still generally challenging for existing methods to decipher a large number of phenotypes in a single living cell, despite extensive efforts in analytical techniques. Wei Min, of the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University in New York City, and his associates recently published a paper outlining their devising a set of multiplexed Raman molecular probes with sharp and mutually resolvable Raman peaks to simultaneously quantify cell surface proteins, endocytosis activities, and metabolic dynamics of an individual live cell. Min, who recently spoke to us about this work, is the 2022 recipient of the Craver Award, presented annually at FACSS SciX to recognize the efforts of young professional spectroscopists that have made significant contributions in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy. Read Interview
The Ellis R. Lippincott Award - Martin Zanni Transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique routinely used for biological and chemical applications, including kinetics and nanostructure analysis. Because TA spectroscopy generally deploys only two laser pulses, there are limitations on polarization control. Often in TA spectroscopy studies, cross peaks overlap with diagonal peak features, resulting in spectroscopists’ being unable to determine the molecular structure of what is being studied. Professor Martin Zanni, the Meloche-Bascom Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his colleagues explored how...
RSC Analytical Division Mid-Career Award - Karen Faulds In 2011, Karen Faulds of the University of Strathclyde and her collaborators published a paper where surface enhanced spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SESORS) imaging was first explored. Ten years later, Faulds co-authored a paper where SESORS signals could be detected from nanotags at depths down to 48 mm for the first time using a handheld spatially offset Raman (SORS) instrument. Faulds, who recently spoke to us about these papers and the advances in the science that made them possible, is the 2022 recipient of the RSC Analytical Division Mid-Career Award, presented annually for the most meritorious contributions to any area of analytical chemistry made by a mid-career scientist.
While laser metal deposition is a rapidly evolving method for 3D printing and the fabrication of high-quality parts by depositing materials on substrates, the quality of production depends on instrumental design and operational parameters that require constant quality control during the process. Igor Gornushkin and colleagues at BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, Germany studied the feasibility of using optical spectroscopy as a control method for laser metal deposition, and he recently spoke to us about this work. Gornushkin is the 2022 recipient of the Lester W. Strock Award from the New England Chapter of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS).
SAS and Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award - James Piret and Robin Turner James Piret, and Robin Turner, of Michael Smith Laboratories (Vancouver, BC Canada) and the University of British Columbia (UBC), have been exploring the benefits of extracting and displaying correlated spectrometric and non-spectrometric variables with a proposed method called multisource correlation analysis (MuSCA). Their work has uncovered several advantages of using Raman spectroscopy for these applications. Here, they discuss their efforts to develop an approach that permitted the integration of diverse biochemical information with measured spectra for co-analysis to characterize the spectra and take advantage of the available spectral information. Piret and Turner are recipients of the 2022 Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) William F. Meggers Award, presented annually at FACSS SciX. 2021FACSS Charles Mann Award for Raman Spectroscopy - Roy Goodacre Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is used to improve Raman scattering, often allowing the detection of single molecules. It generates molecularly specific fingerprints of analytes and, with carefully controlled experimental conditions, can be highly quantitative. Roy Goodacre, a professor of biological chemistry at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, first used this technique to achieve whole-organism fingerprinting of bacteria and then explored SERS in a variety of other applications, including within biotechnology, disease diagnostics, quantitative detection, imaging, food security, and more. Goodacre is the 2021 winner of the Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy.
Throughout his career, Mark Meyerhoff, the Philip J. Elving Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, has been exploring chemical sensors for biomedical applications. Recent work has involved the development of novel nitric oxide (NO)–releasing implantable sensors or monitoring important analytes continuously in vivo. For his work Meyerhoff has been awarded the 2021 ANACHEM award, which is presented annually to an outstanding analytical chemist based on activities in teaching, research, administration or other activity which has advanced the art and science of the field. Meyerhoff spoke to us about this work, his career, and what being presented this award at this fall’s SciX event means to him.Throughout his career, Mark Meyerhoff, the Philip J. Elving Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, has been exploring chemical sensors for biomedical applications. Recent work has involved the development of novel nitric oxide (NO)–releasing implantable sensors or monitoring important analytes continuously in vivo. For his work Meyerhoff has been awarded the 2021 ANACHEM award, which is presented annually to an outstanding analytical chemist based on activities in teaching, research, administration or other activity which has advanced the art and science of the field. Meyerhoff spoke to us about this work, his career, and what being presented this award at this fall’s SciX event means to him.
To better understand biological processes, spectroscopists are developing innovative approaches that utilize the unique interactions between nanostructured materials and light for near field imaging and ultrasensitive label-free spectroscopic detection. Zac Schultz of The Ohio State University and his team have utilized techniques like tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) as well as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) with gold nanostars, to demonstrate an approach to investigate chemical interactions involved in protein–ligand binding. Spectroscopy recently spoke to Schultz about this work. Schultz is the 2021 recipient of the Clara D. Craver Award from The Coblentz Society. Ellis R. Lippincott Award - Rohit Bhargava In cancer, the tissue microenvironment is an important determinant of disease progression and development. Spectroscopic imaging offers promise to reveal important information about what is happening in these microenvironments, with the potential to better predict tumor behavior. Professor Rohit Bhargava and his team at the University of Illinois, where they have established the Cancer Center at Illinois, are advancing research in this area, using techniques such as high-definition Fourier transform infrared (HD-FT-IR) coupled with machine learning. Spectroscopy recently spoke to Bhargava about this work. Bhargava is the 2021 recipient of the Ellis R. Lippincott Award.
In recent years, concerns have arisen about the potential accumulation of lanthanides, like lanthanum and gadolinium, in the human body as a result of their use in clinical treatments or imaging contrast agents, or from exposure through drinking water contaminated with contrast agents. Laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) imaging, which can provide spatially resolved quantification of trace elements in biological samples, is a powerful tool to investigate these questions. Uwe Karst, of the University of Münster in Germany, has been conducting research in this area, and he recently spoke to us about this work. Karst is the 2021 recipient of the Lester W. Strock Award from the New England Chapter of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), which will be presented at this year's SciX conference.In recent years, concerns have arisen about the potential accumulation of lanthanides, like lanthanum and gadolinium, in the human body as a result of their use in clinical treatments or imaging contrast agents, or from exposure through drinking water contaminated with contrast agents. Laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) imaging, which can provide spatially resolved quantification of trace elements in biological samples, is a powerful tool to investigate these questions. Uwe Karst, of the University of Münster in Germany, has been conducting research in this area, and he recently spoke to us about this work. Karst is the 2021 recipient of the Lester W. Strock Award from the New England Chapter of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), which will be presented at this year's SciX conference.
Analytical chemists are continually striving to advance techniques to make it possible to observe and measure matter and processes at smaller and smaller scales. Professor Vartkess Ara Apkarian and his team at the University of California, Irvine have made a significant breakthrough in this quest: They have recorded the Raman spectrum of a single azobenzene thiol molecule. The approach, which breaks common tenets about surface-enhanced Raman scattering/spectroscopy (SERS) and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), involved imaging an isolated azobenzene thiol molecule on an atomically flat gold surface, then picking it up and recording its Raman spectrum using an electrochemically etched silver tip, in an ultrahigh vacuum cryogenic scanning tunneling microscope. For the resulting paper detailing the effort [1], Apkarian and his associates are the 2021 recipients of the William F. Meggers Award, given annually by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy to the authors of the outstanding paper appearing in the journal Applied Spectroscopy.
Spectroscopy's Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award - Bhavya Sharma Bhavya Sharma is an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she is conducting research to detect active and important biomolecules related to hormone regulation, neurological health, and disease diagnosis. For this work, she is applying various forms of Raman spectroscopy, including surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS), and surface-enhanced spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SESORS). She is the winner of the 2021 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine. This annual award recognizes the achievements and aspirations of a talented young molecular spectroscopist, selected by an independent scientific committee. We recently interviewed her about her work. Bhavya Sharma is an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she is conducting research to detect active and important biomolecules related to hormone regulation, neurological health, and disease diagnosis. For this work, she is applying various forms of Raman spectroscopy, including surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS), and surface-enhanced spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SESORS). She is the winner of the 2021 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine. This annual award recognizes the achievements and aspirations of a talented young molecular spectroscopist, selected by an independent scientific committee. We recently interviewed her about her work. 2020FACSS Charles Mann Awardee for Applied Raman Spectroscopy - Yuki Ozaki Overall, the application of Raman spectroscopy has yielded greater understanding of multiple biomedical problems. We interviewed Prof. Yuki Ozaki, professor emeritus and a university fellow at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, about his work in this field. Ozaki is the winner of the 2020 Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy to be given at the 2020 SciX conference for his Raman work in biomedical applications. This interview is part of a series of interviews with winners of awards presented at SciX.
The Coblentz Society Clara Craver Award - Claudia Conti In this interview, Dr. Claudia Conti, a senior researcher at the Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), talks about her work in micro-SORS. Conti is the winner of the 2020 Craver Award presented by the Coblentz Society, to be given at the 2020 SciX conference for her Raman research. The SciX conference is scheduled for October 11–16 in Sparks, Nevada. This interview is part of a series of interviews with winners of awards presented at SciX.
RSC Sir George Stokes Prize - Tuan Vo-Dinh Working at the frontiers of biotechnology, fiberoptics, lasers technique and molecular spectroscopy, Tuan Vo-Dinh of Duke University has developed multiple sensor technologies useful for medical research and diagnostics. In this interview, he talks about his work in spectroscopy and photonics. Vo-Dinh is the winner of the 2019 Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) Sir George Stokes Award and is scheduled to give a plenary lecture at the 2020 SciX conference, October 11–16 in Sparks, Nevada. This interview is part of an ongoing series with the winners of awards that are presented at SciX.
NESAS and SAS Lester W. Strock Award - Heidi Geonaga-Infante For more than 20 years, Heidi Goenaga-Infante, a science fellow and the leader of the inorganic analysis team at LGC, has been working on elemental and speciation analysis. Two recent areas of investigation include the analysis of trace metals in biological samples, and the study of nanomaterials. In these studies, Goenaga-Infante puts particular emphasis on metrology-advancing this work by developing validated reference methodologies. Goenaga-Infante is the 2020 recipient of the Lester W. Strock Award from Society of Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and the SAS New England Regional Section, in recognition of her contributions to the field of analytical atomic spectrometry, and she recently spoke to us about her work. This interview is part of an ongoing series of interviews with the winners of awards that are presented at the SciX conference.
SAS and Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award - Kay Sowoidnich Kay Sowoidnich, PhD, is a research associate with Laser Sensors Lab at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik and one of the 2020 winners of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award. His group have been able to demonstrate the potential of shifted-excitation Raman difference spectroscopy (SERDS) as an efficient tool for soil nutrient analysis
Spectroscopy's Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award - Markita Landry del Carpio By combining single-molecule biophysics and nanomaterial-polymer science, Markita Landry of the University of California, Berkeley has developed new tools for understanding biological systems. Using a combination of nanoparticles, imaging, and spectroscopy, her work has led to discovery of the aspects of neuromodulation in the brain, and for the delivery of genetic materials into plants for crop biotechnology. In recognition of her work, Landry is the 2020 winner of the Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine. 2019FACSS Charles Mann Awardee for Applied Raman Spectroscopy - Karen Faulds Recent advances in Raman spectroscopy, specifically using surface enhanced spatially offset resonance Raman spectroscopy (SESORRS), which is a combination of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), and spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) are enabling noninvasive, real-time measurements of living tissue and multiple bacterial pathogens. In an interview with Karen Faulds, the 2019 recipient of the FACSS Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy, we explore the latest developments in Raman spectroscopy for biomedical analysis applications. This interview is part of a series of interviews with the winners of awards presented at the SciX conference.
AES Mid-Career Award – Christopher Easley In biology and medical research in areas such as the study of insulin, achieving greater temporal resolution and lower detection limits is critical. Christopher Easley, of Auburn University, and the winner of 2019 American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Mid-Career Award, is working to address this challenge.
The Coblentz Society Clara Craver Award - Xiaoyun "Shawn" Chen The Clara Craver award, awarded annually since 2006 by the Coblentz Society, was named after Craver in recognition of her pioneering efforts in promoting the practice of infrared vibrational spectroscopy and her many years of service to the Coblentz Society. The award recognizes the efforts of young professional spectroscopists and their contributions in applied analytical vibrational spectroscopy. The 2019 recipient, Xiaoyun (Shawn) Chen, is a senior research scientist working in the Core R&D Analytical Sciences department of the Dow Chemical Company. Chen has been leading Dow’s global optical spectroscopy technology network since 2013, and also the molecular structure capability since 2016. Through his work at Dow sites around the world, Chen not only helps solve a broad range of problems and improve many different types of R&D and production processes, but also has the joy of introducing many colleagues, such as process engineers and synthetic chemists, to the benefits of spectroscopy for their applications.
Ellis R. Lippincott Award – Ji-Xin Cheng Significant progress is being made to harness the power of spectroscopy techniques for medical research. An ongoing challenge, and area of development, in this effort, is to “see” more and more detail about biological activity, even within individual cells. Ji-Xin Cheng, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, is advancing such work by developing techniques like midinfrared photothermal (MIP) imaging and Raman spectromicroscopy. Cheng is the 2019 winner of the Ellis R. Lippincott Award, which is awarded annually by the Optical Society, the Coblentz Society, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, to an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of vibrational spectroscopy. Here, Cheng speaks to us about those techniques.
NESAS and SAS Lester W. Strock Award - S. Michael Angel Spectroscopy can be difficult to carry out outside a controlled laboratory environment. Imagine, then, the hurdles that would accompany performing spectroscopy in the extreme conditions of deep space or the ocean floor. Mike Angel, a professor of chemistry at the University of South Carolina, has taken on those challenges, working on new types of instruments for remote and in- situ laser spectroscopy, with a focus on deep-ocean, planetary, and homeland security applications of deep ultraviolet (UV), Raman and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), to develop the tools necessary to work within these extreme environments. A key development is the spatial heterodyne Raman spectrometer, a fixed grating Fourier transform Raman spectrometer. For this development and other work, Angel has been awarded the Lester W. Strock Award from The New England section of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy, in recognition of a selected publication of substantive research in, or application of, analytical atomic spectrochemistry in the fields of earth science, life sciences, or stellar and cosmic sciences.
SAS and Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award – Timothy J. Johnson Modeling, rather than measuring infrared (IR) and other spectra in order to account for morphological forms that may be encountered for solids as well as substances that incorporate at least one liquid phase, including bulk mixtures, aerosols, thin films on substrates and others, has become the technique of choice, compared to measuring. Timothy J. Johnson and Tanya L. Myers, the 2019 winners of the Applied Spectroscopy William F. Meggers Award, have been exploring novel methods using infrared (IR) and visible reflectance spectroscopies for identification of target chemicals through derivation of the n and k optical constants. For their winning paper, Johnson and Myers created a spectroscopic library of 57 liquids for which they measured the complex refractive index, data that can be used for optical modeling and other purposes. They shared some of the details of their work with Spectroscopy. 2018FACSS Charles Mann Awardee for Applied Raman Spectroscopy - Andrew Whitley In many areas of spectroscopy, scientists working at instrument companies often make valuable contributions, by advancing the practical application of techniques and by educating customers. Andrew Whitley of Horiba Scientific, is one such scientist. He works diligently to identify potential new areas for Raman applications, and als o dedicates much of his time to educating spectroscopists and new users to the field about the benefits of using Raman spectroscopy. Here, Whitley discusses his continued interest in spectroscopy, his role educating others, and his hope for the future of Raman spectroscopy. Based on his work, he received the 2018 Charles Mann Award. This interview is part of a series of interviews with the winners of awards presented at SciX
NESAS and SAS Lester W. Strock Award - Javier Laserna As the use of nanoparticles in a wide range of applications continues to increase, the need for techniques to analyze these particles also grows. Javier Laserna of the University of Málaga, in Spain, has developed an approach to measure individual nanoparticles in air using optical trapping (OT) combined with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). Laserna received the 2018 Lester W. Strock award for this development as well as his broader research on analytical methods and instrumentation using LIBS. He recently spoke to us about this work. |
