Keith gave his invited talk at Pacifichem; the final one for 2025.  He described the work (with Prof James Crowley) on hydrogen photocatalysis in the session Latest Development of Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy.

Mitchell’s paper on calcifications buried in wax tissue phantom, was awarded the inaugural Peter Griffiths Best Paper Award for Applied Spectroscopy Practica. Peter Griffiths was one of innovators on FTIR spectrometers – it is a real honour to be bestowed an award named after him.   Congratulations to Mitchell and the team. You can find […]

Peter’s poster at ICAVS was entitled: “Investigating the effects of backbone flexibility on the electronic properties of heteroleptic Cu(I) bis diimine complexes” Description Transition metal complexes are known to have very interesting, tuneable electronic properties which are important for developing technologies for applications in photocatalysis, for hydrogen generation and CO2 reduction. These are particularly important […]

The ICAVS13 wrapped up yesterday – here are a few random photos of what was a great conference.

Congratulations to Jervee who won a poster prize at ICAVS.  Her poster described her work on PEF treated plant based materials to improve protein yield in plant based meal.  Her work has shown that protein confirmation is changed depending on processing condition thus leading to modifications in processing for the optimal product.

Keith presented an invited talk at the 13th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS13) His talk entitled “Using Vibrational Spectroscopy and Computational Chemistry to Understand Polymorph Transformation in Pharmaceuticals” highlighted the use of low frequency Raman spectroscopy combined with PBC DFT calculations to detect crystallization onset in pharma samples and order transition phases that […]

  Amir recently attended the Konference on Optics, Atoms, and Laser Applications 2025 (KOALA).  His poster entitled The push and the pull: Examining the effect of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing substituents in heteroleptic Cu(I) complexes was presented along with a flash talk.   The work described in the poster concnerns the photophysical properties of a series […]

An active poster presentation with Anam, Peter and Jervee all presenting. Anam presented “Raman Spectroscopic analysis of Molar Teeth Samples in relation to Cord-Blood Vitamin D status.” This work examined vitamin D deficiency and elemental composition in molar teeth samples from participants with known 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (25-OHD) at birth. Vitamin D deficiency is associated […]

A busy afternoon at the  ICAVS with Khansa giving her talk on donor-acceptor dyes, then right after that Jervee giving a flash presentation on her work on plant-based proteins and their evaluation using spectroscopy and chemometrics, then Peter giving a flash presentation on his work on photocatalysts.  Jervee, Peter and Anam all presented their posters, […]

Khansa recently presented her work that the 13th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS13) in Xiamen, China. Her talk was entitled “Probing Charge-Transfer and Vibrational Properties of Triphenylamine-Based Donor-Acceptor Compounds Using Raman Spectroscopy and DFT”.  In it she described the  use of Raman spectroscopy and DFT modeling to reveal the charge-transfer mechanisms and vibrational […]