Spectroscopy
The latest chemistry news and research on spectroscopy, including infra-red, nuclear magnetic resonance and raman, from the Royal Society of Chemistry's magazine, Chemistry World
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Research
Structural disorder key to high-capacitance carbon electrodes
Finding could lead to supercapacitors that store more charge
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Research
Using analytical chemistry to illuminate the unlisted ingredients in tattoo inks
Discovery that more than 80% of the tattoo inks sampled had unlisted ingredients prompts New York-based lab to launch a website providing chemical information to tattoo artists and their clients
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Research
Telling left from right: chirality detection faces up to its weaknesses
New solutions are being found to an enduring problem in chemistry
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Webinar
Advances in Reaction Monitoring with FlowNMR
Join us on 9 May to learn how the benchtop X-Pulse and FlowNMR are revolutionising reaction monitoring
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Webinar
Lab XAS: A new tool for materials characterisation
Join us on 15 May to explore the utility of lab XAS as an everyday tool for materials characterisation
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Research
Debate surrounding amorphous selenium’s structure rumbles on
New evidence suggests that amorphous selenium forms eight-membered rings, but some researchers believe the results are inconclusive
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News
New facility set to ‘revolutionise UK research’ into tiny particles
CoreMIS centre in Oxfordshire will give scientists access to suite of microscopy and spectroscopy instruments
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Whitepaper
From R&D to QC, making NMR accessible for everyone
Putting NMR spectroscopy at the heart of the analytical chemistry lab
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Webinar
Astronomical spectroscopy: understanding the complex chemistry hidden between the stars
Find out how scientists are resolving the chemistry of the gaps between the stars and planets
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Research
Elemental analysis sheds light on Pompeii victims’ final moments
New evidence suggests asphyxiation caused the death of seven people in new study
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Research
Perovskite studies fall foul of ‘unconsciously inappropriate’ XPS analysis
Beware of misinterpreted chemical shifts and misquoted references
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Research
Aromatic molecules in a galaxy far, far away
JWST IR observations suggest star formation was rapid and uneven in early galaxy
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Research
Identifying single atoms with x-ray specificity
Combining synchrotron x-rays with scanning tunnelling microscopy gives atomic resolution
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Research
NMR reveals sialic acid biosynthesis in real time
Using NMR, scientists can directly measure sialic acid enzyme conversion velocities for the first time
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Research
Mechanochemically accelerated sublimations used to separate chiral molecules
New technique combines ball milling with NMR to monitor sublimations in real time
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News
Musical periodic table being built by turning chemical elements’ spectra into notes
Computer code that converts each element into a unique piece of music could provide a novel way to expand chemistry communication
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Research
AI identifies molecules from their featureless visible spectrum
Forget about trying to interpret peaks and let machine learning identify organic compounds from their entirely smooth visible spectrum
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Opinion
Analysing the Winchcombe meteor fireball
The story behind the first spectrum of a meteor which became a recovered meteorite in the UK
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Article
Leading in the lab starts at Pittcon
Don’t miss the premier conference on laboratory science
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Feature
The smell of history
Nina Notman sniffs out chemistry’s role in uncovering, documenting and recreating the scents of the past