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Redesigning Spectroscopy in our 35th Anniversary Year

As part of our celebration of the 35th anniversary year of Spectroscopy, the January 2020 issue launches a redesign of the print magazine. The new look is clean and current, and we think it will enhance your reading experience. The logo has undergone an update too. Let us know what you think! Please send your feedback to me at lbush@mmhgroup.com. And look out for our special 35th anniversary issue in June!

–Laura Bush, Editorial Director

In our January Issue:

COLUMNS

IR Spectral Interpretation Workshop
 Organic Nitrogen Compounds, VII: Amides
Brian C. Smith
The N-H stretching and bending peaks can be used to distinguish primary, secondary, and tertiary amides and to ascertain protein structure. Here’s how.
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Lasers & Optics Interface
The Rise of the Upconversion Materials
Steve Buckley
An important class of nanoparticles made of “upconversion” materials has found a central role in sensing. These nanoparticles are used to convert longer-wavelength photons into shorter wavelength fluorescence to detect temperature, pH, gas molecules, ions, and trace biomolecules.
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Featured Articles
 The 2020 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award
Jerome Workman, Jr.
This year’s atomic spectroscopy award recipient, Jacob T. Shelley, focuses on the development of plasma-based tools to enable rapid and sensitive detection of a broad range of analytes from complex matrices.
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Is Your Spectrophotometer Still “Pharma Compliant”? A Review of the Latest USP Chapter <857>
Nathan Hulme
The U.S. and European Pharmacopeia chapters covering ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy have recently undergone significant revision, leading to important differences between them. We explain how those changes affect the steps you need to take to qualify your instruments.
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Book Review: Spectroscopy: Principles and Instrumentation, by Mark F. Vitha
Robin Helburn
This slender volume belongs on the bookshelf of every experimental spectroscopist, and offers an alternative to a large, comprehensive textbook for an undergraduate instrumental chemistry course.
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Peer-Reviewed Research
 Improvement of the Limits of Detection for P, S, and Ca Nanoparticle Size in the Absence of Dissolved Analyte Using a Mixed-Gas Plasma in Single-Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry
Joshua Kofsky and Diane Beauchemin
This study shows, for the first time, that limits of detection (LOD) can be improved for P, S and Ca nanoparticles by the addition of N2 to the plasma flow for single-particle inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (spICP-MS). The work also examined the relative LOD differences using Ar-N2 and Ar-N2-H2 mixed-gas plasmas.
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NEW WEBCASTS
Improving Your Trace Elemental Analysis with the Latest Advances in ICP-OES and ICP-MS

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020 at 11 am EST | 8 am PST | 4 pm GMT | 5 pm CET

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Editors’ Series: Mid-Infrared, Near-Infrared and Raman Spectrometries: Differences, Commonalities, and When to Use Which

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020 11 am EST | 8 am PST | 4 pm GMT | 5 pm CET

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ON DEMAND WEBCASTS
Solving Problems When Using FT-IR
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Fingerprinting Sources of Environmental Pollution Using Stable Isotopes: A Focus on Nitrogen
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Maximize Your Profitability and Brand Loyalty Through High Quality Terpene Extraction
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Basic Principles of Raman Spectroscopy with Imaging Applications
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Good Water Practices for Reliable LC–MS and ICP-MS Analyses
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