University of Groningen scientists have developed nanopores to directly measure the mass of peptides. Although the resolution needs improvement, this proof of principle shows that a cheap and portable ...

Researchers 3D printed a mini quadrupole mass filter, a key component of a mass spectrometer, that performs as well as some commercial-grade devices. It can be fabricated in hours for a few dollars ...

A portable spectrometer small enough to fit inside a smartphone camera could soon be used to diagnose diseases including skin cancer. As well as diagnosing diseases the portable spectrometer could ...

Bruker Optics announces the launch of the MOBILE-IR II - a portable, battery-powered Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer that delivers the high spectral performance of a laboratory ...

"It's exciting that our spectrometer opens up possibilities for all sorts of new everyday gadgets, and instruments to do new science as well," Minot said. In medicine, for example, spectrometers are ...

Offering a choice of spectral ranges to cover the ultraviolet through near-infrared spectral regions, the OSM-400 portable spectrometer lets you carry out local data analysis in real time. The ...

A team from the Texas A&M University have developed a means of performing confirmatory diagnostics of Cannabis Sativa using a portable hand-held Raman spectrometer. This means of diagnosis can ...

An illustration featuring a spectrometer with its scanner set on a bag of substances. The background features several geometric shapes and math symbols. The words "methamphetamine" and ...

Newton, NJ, USA - Thorlabs has announced that it has expanded its spectroscopy product offering with the release of two variants of Portable Coded-Aperture Raman Spectrometers (Item #’s RASP1 and ...

THE mass spectrometer illustrated below was developed at the Westinghouse Research Laboratory in East Pittsburgh as a tool for some routine gas analysis problems. A rather complicated mass ...