The Federation of Analytical Chemistry & Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), of which the RSC is a member society, has announced the winners of its Innovation Awards.
The FACSS Innovation Awards showcase the newest and most creative science debuted orally at a FACSS-organised conference. At last year’s conference, held in October in Reno, Nevada, USA, the panel selected four equal awardees:
Ultrasound Enhanced ATR mid-IR Fibre Optic Probe for Spectroscopy of Particles in Suspensions
Cosima Koch, Markus Brandstetter, Stefan Radel, Bernhard Lendl
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Large-Area Standoff Planetary Raman Measurements Using a Novel Spatial Heterodyne Fourier Transform Raman Spectrometer
S. Michael Angel1, Nathaniel R. Gomer1, Shiv K. Sharma2, J. Chance Carter3
1University of South Carolina, 2University of Hawaii, 3Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging Studies of Dynamic Processes in Reversed Phase Chromatographic Materials
Justin Cooper, Eric Peterson, Joel Harris
University of Utah
Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry – New Dimension of LIBS
Alexander Bol’shakov1, Richard Russo1,2, Xianglei Mao2, Dale Perry2, Osman Sorkhabi2, Chris McKay3
1Applied Spectra, Inc., Fremont, CA 94538, 2LBNL, Berkeley, CA 94720, 3NASA-Ames Research Center
Each awardee will be presented with a cash prize and commemorative plaque, and each awardee has been invited to return to the conference in 2012 to become a point of emphasis in the scientific program. The awards will be formally presented at FACSS’s SCIX conference, which will be held in Kansas City, 30 September – 04 October, 2012.
