Scientists in Taiwan have put together a system that uses a computer screen and digital camera to obtain spatial, temporal and spectral information on reaction samples, with a set-up cost of just £400.
Pawel Urban who led the research at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, points out that ‘chemical processes occur in space and time, but few analytical methods provide both spatial and temporal information’. Most chemical reaction mixtures are also not homogeneous, but traditional spectral techniques for monitoring them assume homogeneity. Pawel believes it is important to look into the intrinsic non-uniformities which can affect the progress of chemical reactions
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Read the original journal article in RSC Advances – it’s free to access until 10th September:
Spectral imaging of chemical reactions using a computer display and a digital camera
Kai-Ta Hsieh and Pawel L. Urban
RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 31094-31100, DOI: 10.1039/C4RA04207G
