Raman News and Newsletter

Renishaw introduced its new integrated Raman AFM package—developed in collaboration with Bruker Nano—at the Fall MRS meeting in Boston, MA, with acclaim from delegates.

Renishaw announces the lucky winner of an Apple iPad 2 following the inside Raman seminar at the Natural History Museum earlier this year.

inVia Raman microscope imaging capabilities

Raman spectroscopy came under the spotlight recently at the Natural History Museum in London, when Renishaw held its 2011 ‘inside Raman’ seminar in the Museum’s Flett theatre on 26th and 27th September.

Microspheres - antibiotic carriers for the direct delivery of drugs to wound sites. Biodegradable microspheres are ideal drug carriers for antibiotics and for their direct application to sites of musculo-skeletal surgery. Understanding drug carrier formation and drug release efficiency is of paramount importance in optimising the design of drug delivery mechanisms.

Simple multicellular organisms, such as nematode, zebrafish, and fruit flies, play a critical role in translational medicine. Their ease of breeding, rapid turnover rates, simple cellular organisation, and transparency make them ideal for understanding early developmental pathways, gene functions, and human diseases.

A spectroscopic fingerprint from the microbial sample provides quantitative and qualitative information which can be used to characterise, discriminate and identify microorganisms, in both the bulk environment and at the single cell level.

Following the success of the ‘inside Raman’ event last year at Warwick University, Renishaw’s Raman spectroscopy team will be hosting ‘inside Raman’ seminars at the Natural History Museum, London, UK, on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th September 2011.

Efficient use of solar energy to generate commercial and industrial power has long been a desired goal. Environmental concerns, government targets, and the increasing cost of traditional fuels has generated more research and potential product opportunities in recent years. Whilst a multitude of novel materials (such as CuIn1-xGaxSe2 and CdTe) are being researched and improved, silicon based materials still lead the industry because of their high efficiency and abundance of raw material.

Motor manufacturers regularly announce the release of novel battery powered electric vehicles. Compared to the lithium-ion batteries in cell phones or notebook PCs, the batteries used in cars require very high output power, short charging time, long life, excellent safety, light weight, and low production cost. This translates into a need for higher-performing battery components made from chemically and structurally robust materials.