Sep 30, 2022 | Application, Color Measurement, News, NIR
Congratulations to our third-place winner Ph.D. candidate Sofia Schirmer and Associate Professor Felipe Gawryszewski at Universidade de Brasília for their research on near-infrared reflectance in butterfly wings. This team has been studying butterflies in the Cerrados...
Sep 22, 2022 | Application, Fluorescence, News, NIR
Congratulations to our second-place winner Professor Stacy Copp, Ph.D. Candidate Anna Gonzalez Rosell, and their team at the University of California, Irvine. They are using biomolecular engineering to develop NIR bio-labels that is within a class of fluorophores. The...
Sep 14, 2022 | Application, News
The SpectraWizard’s Spectroscopy Application Challenge has now officially ended! Spectroscopists from all over the world competed against each other for a chance to win over $5,000 in StellarCash. Please check out the winning spectroscopy applications below and...
Jul 20, 2022 | Application, Food, NIR
Wenya Wei, Huanhuan Li, Suleiman A. Haruna, Jizhong Wu, Quansheng Chen Abstract The quality of pork meat is vital since it is one of the most essential sources of proteins and other nutrients. Near-infrared spectroscopy via colorimetric sensor array (NIRS-CSA)...
Jul 19, 2022 | Application, Atmospheric, News
How to: Be Uninteresting About Atmospheric Optics When I was asked to do a piece for this month’s Marketing campaign, I decided to ask my kids what they thought I should write about. They hated all my ideas, including explaining why we see the colors in the sky that...
Jul 18, 2022 | Application, Food, News, NIR
It’s summer, and like most people at this time of year, the SpectraWizard is excited about summer barbeques. In fact, he’s so excited that he’s hosting one and you are invited! What is on the menu you may ask? How does fresh pork and beef sound? Don’t worry –...