As a consultant, I have gotten calls where the potential clients states, “I’ve just purchased a NIR instrument; could you tell me what to do with it?” Assuming they do not hang up when I do tell them what they can do with it,... read more

It wasn’t all that long ago that Raman spectroscopy was an expensive, lab-based research tool. It was largely used for structural information and identification of materials in mixtures. One problem had been the LASERs ... read more

2013 is, for me, an auspicious year. It marks the 30th anniversary of looking into a new technique for raw materials qualification and finding, ta-da, near-infrared spectroscopy. There were few choices of vendors in the US... read more