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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Academic”

Academic Loaner Program

Diggity March 17, 2021 Academic

The scientific and research community has adopted handheld LIBS as a research and investigative tool When we started SciAps, our focus was to develop LIBS for two critical handheld applications — we pioneered the measurement of carbon in steel and ...

Have LIBS, will travel

Diggity November 10, 2020 Academic, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Meet Dr. Richard Hark, synthetic organic chemist, conservation scientist and LIBS enthusiast Handheld LIBS and Dr. Richard Hark have a long relationship that reads like an adventure series, where partnership with a company like SciAps leads to unexpected places. “I ...

Measuring Elements in Tea with Handheld LIBS

Diggity July 23, 2020 Academic, Food and Ag, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Application of LIBS in Detecting Beneficial Elements & Contaminants in Tea Samples Before Covid-19 hit the United States, Dr. Ying Guo, Dr. Seungjin Lee and Dr. Tae Lee from Georgia Gwinnett College began a unique elemental analysis using the SciAps ...

Optimisation of fast quantification of fluorine content using handheld LIBS

Diggity April 2, 2020 Academic, Geochemistry, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Expanding the world of handheld analysis with SciAps LIBS Fluorine quantification is difficult using conventional techniques since it usually includes heavy sample preparation such as dissolution. Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) provides a multi-element detection that has been successfully used to ...

Expanding Global Soil Management with SciAps Handheld LIBS

Diggity March 31, 2020 Academic, Food and Ag, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

A prototype of the platform that will integrate the LIBS sensor in the future. Courtesy BonaRes/I4S Handheld LIBS makes it possible to analyze every square meter of soil, in place and in real time. Courtesy BonaRes/I4S LIBS emerges as a ...

As shown spectrally, in an argon environment rather than air, signals are many times larger, thus yielding superior analytical performance.

The Periodic Table – Measured with a Handheld

Diggity February 28, 2020 Academic, Geochemistry, LIBS, NDT/PMI, Pharmaceutical, Scrap Metal & Alloys

Measure virtually every element, in almost any material, with a handheld analyzer. That’s the power of the SciAps Z handheld LIBS system. Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an established laboratory technique for elemental analysis that SciAps has succeeded in miniaturizing. The ...

Technical Note: Handheld LIBS Provides a Fast and Easy Method to Trace Gold

Diggity January 28, 2020 Academic, Featured News, Geochemistry, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Handheld LIBS is relevant to gold traceability, and is simple to use in the field. A new study published as a Technical Note in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS) demonstrates LIBS as a fast and easy method to …

SciAps XRF and LIBS Serving Every Industry

Diggity January 23, 2020 Academic, Geochemistry, LIBS, NDT/PMI, News & Press, Scrap Metal & Alloys, XRF

SciAps handheld LIBS and handheld XRF are working around the world, serving every industry. Field Research Measuring lead in water with XRF at Notre Dame University Identifying conflict minerals with LIBS in New Mexico Elemental analysis with LIBS at Western ...

Measuring Lead in Tap Water with Handheld XRF

Diggity January 4, 2020 Academic, Independent Studies, News & Press, XRF

Dr. Marya Lieberman, an analytical chemist at University of Notre Dame, was driving to work early in 2017 when she heard a story that changed the course of her work. NPR aired a Reuters investigative story revealing that thousands of ...

Handheld LIBS for Geological Field Research

Diggity December 6, 2019 Academic, Geochemistry, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

SciAps LIBS Used in Lunar Simulation Funded by Canadian Space Agency Researchers recently used SciAps handheld LIBS Z-300 in a lunar analog simulation that will be a resource for future missions to the moon. The Canadian Space Agency funded the ...