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

In-field chemistry everywhere with handheld LIBS

Diggity August 31, 2021 Academic, Environmental, Geochemistry, LIBS

Russell Harmon, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor, Department of Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University Russell Harmon: A vision for the future of LIBS SciAps debuted the world’s first truly portable handheld only a few years ago, but ...

SciAps LIBS helps scientists prepare for Mars

Diggity August 20, 2021 Academic, Geochemistry, LIBS, News & Press

SciAps Z-903 LIBS analyzer joins Hawai‘i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation with scientist Sarafina Nance on their Mars simulation mission August 13-27, 2021. For updates on the mission in real time, follow @HI-SEAS on Twitter. HI-SEAS is a Mars and ...

Application of Handheld LIBS to Quantitative Analysis of Carbonate Minerals

Diggity July 1, 2021 Academic, Geochemistry, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Presented at International Online Meeting on Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (IOMLIBS), July 2020. Authors: Yonghwi Kim, University of Lorraine; Cécile Fabre, University of Lorraine; Jean Cauzid, University of Lorraine Handheld LIBS is effectively applicable for in-field determination of carbonates and ...

Analyses of Li-Rich Minerals Using Handheld LIBS

Diggity July 1, 2021 Academic, Geochemistry, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Publication: Cécile Fabre, Nour Eddine Ourti, Julien Mercadier, Joana Cardoso-Fernandes, Filipa Dias, Mônica Perrotta, Friederike Koerting, Alexandre Lima, Friederike Kaestner, Nicole Koellner, Robert Linnen, David Benn, Tania Martins and Jean Cauzid. “Analyses of Li-Rich Minerals Using Handheld LIBS Tool,” Data. ...

Investigation of handheld LIBS in terms of heavy metal detection in contaminated soil

Diggity July 1, 2021 Academic, Environmental, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Study presented to Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Continental Environments, September 2020. Authors: Mehran Movahedrad, LafargeHolcim, Lyon, France; Cécile Fabre, University of Lorraine SciAps LIBS was used to perform heavy metals analysis in contaminated soil. Handheld LIBS simplifies the necessary qualitative and ...

Making a case for handheld LIBS in mineral exploration

Diggity June 19, 2021 Academic, Geochemistry, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Dr. Cécile Fabre, assistant professor at GeoRessources lab, is head of the Earth Sciences Department of Université de Lorraine and responsible for Master of Geosciences. She has been working on LIBS applications for mineral exploration since the end of the ...

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 ...