Congrats to Lisa Leung on handing in her FORS490 project on the postmortem degradation of pig hair.  Lisa used spectroscopic techniques to monitor the changes in the keratin and then compared those results to isotope analysis.

Keith was the keynote speaker at the 21st Raman Imaging Symposium will take place September 29 to October 1st, 2025 in Ulm, Germany.  He presented the group’s work on a variety of topics.  The talk entitled “Coupling Raman microscopy and chemometrics in the study of complex materials”  included work on eletrospun fibres, serpinite rocks,  harakeke […]

Keith attended The Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Symposium on “Physics for Sustainability: Health, Energy, and Environment (SPHERE)” at Faculty hall , IISc, Bengaluru  from October 16-18, 2025.  This occured after the PCCP Editorial board meeting and the symposium covered areas such as nanoparticles, biological systems, computational and theoretical chemistry and spectroscopy.  Keith’s talk entitled […]

Keith attended the PCCP editorial board meeting in Bengaluru (Bangalore) India.  The meeting covered off a number of new opportunities the journal seeks to take advantage of in the future.  There was also a good discussion around the handling of papers and some work on rewording the editorial templates that are used to communicate with […]

Congrats to Keith on his contribution, with Chinese researchers led by Prof Guiyin Xu, that looks at battery technology.  The paper entitled “Electron displacement polarization of high-dielectric constant fiber separators enhances interface stability,” is published in Nature Communications.  It uses a variety of methods to understand the processes occurring in lithium ion batteries finding that […]

Congrats to Jervee.  She recently contributed to a paper in Photonics Research that used lithium niobate (LB4) to generate stimulated Raman scattering across a range of wavelengths.  A millimeter-sized LB4 whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonator with a record quality factor was fabricated using single-point diamond cutting. Pumped with about 10 mW at 517 nm, it […]

Congratulations to Jervee for her contribution to “Non-thermal extraction and modification of chia seed mucilage using Pulsed electric field” a new paper in Food Hydrocolloids.  Jervee used infrared spectroscopy with multivariate analysis to show the modification in yield of protein and fat in the mucilage with increased PEF – this was also corroborated by here […]

Congratulations to Samanali on her publication “Artificially light-aged, black-dyed harakeke fibres: Understanding the correlations between chemical composition and fibre properties using vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics” in Spectrochimca Acta B.  This work was part a longer term project which investigated harakeke fibres and the effects of dying and aging on them.  Samanali’s work shows how infrared […]

Jervee using the Raman microscope – finally back in operation after quite a few months down.  Jervee is collecting some nice data on microplastics