All Spectroscopy articles – Page 6
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ResearchMolecular beacon homes in on protein structures
Researchers solve protein structure inside living cells for the first time
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ResearchMystery of black blotches on Smithsonian museum cleared up
Discolouration of iconic Washington, DC, building’s red stone is all down to a manganese oxide-rich rock varnish
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ResearchTamed sodium in water comes out of the blue
Controlled conditions prevent alkali metal in water exploding letting researchers film and examine reaction with new eyes
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NewsHidden face revealed beneath Degas painting
Portrait reconstructed using x-ray fluorescence elemental maps
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OpinionMoseley’s spectrometer
Henry Moseley’s discovery changed the face of the periodic table before his untimely death
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ResearchNanoprobes to guide cancer radiotherapy dosing
Real-time Sers monitoring of radiation treatment in a 3D prostate cancer model
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FeatureThe fleeting frontier
Andy Extance finds out how chemists are studying processes lasting trillionths of a second – and even less – using laser-based pump–probe experiments
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ResearchMultiphase NMR of whole animal leaves shrimp unscathed
Technique could update toxicity tests
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ResearchPositron thinking solves titania structure after 30 years
Technique bridges gap between surface morphology and bulk analysis
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FeatureSers and the rise of the Raman empire
Dermot Martin looks at how Sers was invented and how it is expanding its sphere of influence
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ResearchGetting the measure of transition states
Previously impossible to monitor properties of transition states found hidden in vibration spectra
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ResearchDress dye analysis points to fast-moving fashion in 19th century
Purple dyes took as little as four years to go from synthesis to mass production
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ResearchIR spectroscopy stretches knowledge of hydrogen bonding
Rare hydrogen bond with phosphorus detected for first time in the gas phase
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ResearchGold cluster bends between two isomers
Unusual structural isomerism uncovered with photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical calculations
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ResearchGetting closer to secrets on the seabed
Scientists in Spain are developing a technique to analyse minerals and artefacts underwater
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ResearchSilicon chip spots dangerous pathogens in human blood
Silicon wafer doped with silver nanoparticles can rapidly identify E. coli in blood
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ResearchMore bonds probed using x-ray laser
A second group have measured a bond transition state with a femtosecond x-ray laser
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ResearchX-ray laser snaps first bond-forming transition state
Study of femtosecond-timescale carbon monoxide oxidation highlights technique’s potential in catalysis