Pocket-sized invention revolutionizes ability to detect harmful materials

The low-cost cellphone-based Raman spectrometer system can make identifications of unknown biological molecules within minutes

18-Jul-2024 - Imagine knowing what berry or mushroom is safe to eat during a hike or swiftly detecting pathogens in a hospital setting that would traditionally require days to identify. Identification and detection of drugs, chemicals and biological molecules invisible to the human eye can be made possible ...

Analytik Jena: 50 years photometers

16-Oct-2013 - In the year 1846 Carl Zeiss founded the Optical Workshop in Jena which was the beginning of the industrial production of analytical instruments worldwide. In 1963 Carl Zeiss Jena introduced the spectrophotometer SPECORD® that succeeded the Pulfrich photometer first presented in 1924. Even in ...

History of analytical measuring technology in Jena

Analytik Jena opens company museum

19-Jun-2013 - Analytik Jena AG's company museum presents the history of analytical measuring technology in Jena to visitors, customers, business partners and interested guests over 70 square meters, and showcases the continuation of instrument development at Analytik Jena up to the present day. More than 40 ...

Analytik Jena and SOTAX announce cooperation in dissolution systems

17-Feb-2012 - Starting now, the spectrophotometers of Analytik Jena's SPECORD® PLUS series will be complementing the product range of the Swiss company SOTAX, a leading solutions provider in the pharmaceutical industry. With this mutually beneficial cooperation, Analytik Jena AG is taking the chance to embrace ...

The gold standard: Biodesign Institute researchers use nanoparticles to make 3-D DNA nanotubes

DNA nanotubes may soon find their way into a new generation of ultra-tiny electronic and biomedical innovations

07-Jan-2009 - Arizona State University researchers Hao Yan and Yan Liu imagine and assemble intricate structures on a scale almost unfathomably small. Their medium is the double-helical DNA molecule, a versatile building material offering near limitless construction potential. In "Science", Yan and Liu, ...

Agilent Technologies releases resource guide for maximum operation of UV-Visible spectroscopy systems

09-Jul-2002 - PALO ALTO, Calif., July 8, 2002 Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced the release of an informative, practical and easy- to-use resource guide for UV-Visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy titled "Accessories and Supplies for UV- Visible Spectroscopy" (publication number 5988-5967EN). This guide ...