Optical Frequency Combs Make Ultraviolet Spectroscopy More Sensitive and More Precise

The development promises advances in several scientific and technological fields

18-Mar-2024 - In a recent publication in Nature, researchers at the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin, Germany, and at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching report on a new technique for deciphering the properties of matter with light, that can simultaneously detect and precisely quantify many ...

Microscopic Transformations of Electrocatalyst Surfaces

Researchers reveal the disordering of copper surfaces during catalysis

24-Aug-2023 - Developing technologies that can convert CO2 into synthetic fuels and base chemicals is of key importance for reaching the climate goals. The electrochemical reduction of CO2 at copper electrodes allows to do this directly with electric power from renewable sources which could be used for the ...

Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel receives new prize for molecular chemistry of main group elements

Christel and Herbert W. Roesky Prize is awarded for the first time

08-Jun-2023 - At the GDCh Science Forum Chemistry (WiFo), the German Chemical Society (GDCh) awards Professor Dr. Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel, Freie Universität Berlin, the Christel and Herbert W. Roesky Prize. The award from the Christel and Herbert W. Roesky Foundation set up by the GDCh is endowed with ...

A Sanitizer in the Galactic Centre Region

Interstellar Detection of Iso-Propanol in Sagittarius B2

30-Jun-2022 - An international group of researchers led by Arnaud Belloche (MPIfR, Bonn, Germany) reports the first identification iso-propanol in interstellar space, a substance which is used as a sanitizer on Earth. Iso-propanol is the largest alcohol detected so far, demonstrating the increasing complexity ...

Crystalline supermirrors for trace gas detection in environmental science and medicine

Analysis of particularly complex gas mixtures with unprecedented accuracy

25-May-2021 - In an international cooperation with partners from industry and research, physicists from the University of Vienna, together with Thorlabs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the University of Kansas, have now succeeded for the first time in demonstrating ...

Designing materials one atom at a time

09-Mar-2018 - Washington State University scientists have been awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop molecular machines that self-replicate, producing pounds of 100-percent pure material. You read that right. Their research is the first step towards a new paradigm in manufacturing where ...

A deep look into a single molecule

10-Feb-2016 - A German research group has demonstrated the first implementation of a non-destructive state detection technique for molecular ions. Piet Schmidt and his colleagues from the QUEST-Institute at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) observed changes in the rotational state of a trapped ...

Interstellar molecules are branching out

29-Sep-2014 - For the first time a carbon-bearing molecule with a "branched" structure was detected in interstellar space. The molecule, iso-propyl cyanide, was discovered in Sgr B2, a star forming region close to the center of our galaxy that is a hot-spot for molecule-hunting astronomers. The branched ...

Shimadzu UK strengthens focus on molecular and atomic spectroscopy with new specialist recruit

20-Jul-2012 - Shimadzu UK Ltd is continuing the company’s programme of investment in the molecular and atomic spectroscopy markets by appointing Andy Winn as a Product Specialist for atomic absorption (AA), inductively coupled plasma (ICP) and total organic carbon (TOC) in Shimadzu UK’s Spectroscopy ...

REMPI and SPI for quick emissions analysis

analytica Conference 2012

16-Mar-2012 - 20 sessions with some 115 lectures await visitors at the analytica Conference, the most important analysis conference in Europe. As in the past, the conference is being held on the first three days of the International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis and Biotechnology. One of the ...