Spectroscopy: New Uses and Implications

by Williams; Roy H.

• ISBN13: 9781926692821
• ISBN10: 1926692829
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-15
• Publisher: Apple Academic

Summary

Spectroscopy is a powerful technique that utilizes the interaction of light with matter. It utilizes the absorption, emission, and scattering of light as it interacts with matter creating a large variety of spectra. Analysis of various spectra can yield important physical characteristics of matter, including chemical composition, temperature, luminosity, mass, and more. The uses and implications of spectroscopy are very broad, with practical uses in many fields of science, including astronomy, medicine, analytic chemistry, material science, geology, and more. Researchers are constantly discovering new and clever applications of spectroscopy, and it is expected to play an ever-increasing role in nanotechnology and superconductivity. This new book brings together a diverse collection of new studies in spectroscopy, research advances in spectroscopy, and new uses in spectroscopy.

Author Biography

Professor Roy H. Williams is an astronomer and educator at the Kopernik Observatory and Science Center in Vestal, New York. He has trained on the spectrograph and is certified in both Earth Science and Physical Science. He has taught in several New York districts as well as at several other colleges. He writes a monthly column in the Press Sun-Bulletin newspaper (Binghamton, NY) and makes monthly live appearances on local television newscasts. He also helped to create a computerized sky atlas using Turbo Pascal, and in his role at Kopernik Observatory has worked with both astronaut Dan Bursch and astronomer John Dobson.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Collision-Induced Infrared Absorption by Molecular Hydrogen Pairs at Thousands of Kelvin	p. 13
Non-Linear Dielectric Spectroscopy of Microbiological Suspensions	p. 32
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy-Derived Tissue Oxygen Saturation in Battlefield Injuries: A Case Series Report	p. 54
Rapid Etiological Classification of Meningitis by NMR Spectroscopy Based on Metabolite Profiles and Host Response	p. 65
Traditional Biomolecular Structure Determination by NMR Spectroscopy Allows for Major Errors	p. 82
A New On-Axis Multimode Spectrometer for the Macromolecular Crystallography Beamlines of the Swiss Light Source	p. 103
High-Resolution 3D Structure Determination of Kaliotoxin by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy	p. 125
Kissing G Domains of MnmE Monitored by X-Ray Crystallography and Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy	p. 140
In-Cell Biochemistry Using NMR Spectroscopy	p. 167
Structure of the Dimeric N-Glycosylated Form of Fungal B-N-Acetylhexosaminidase Revealed by Computer Modeling, Vibrational Spectroscopy, and Biochemical Studies	p. 184
SAM Domain-Based Protein Oligomerization Observed by Live-Cell Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy	p. 211
In-Vivo Optical Detection of Cancer Using Chlorin E6-Polyvinylpyrrolidone Induced Fluorescence Imaging and Spectroscopy	p. 230
A Three-Dimensional Multivariate Image Processing Technique for the Analysis of FTIR Spectroscopic Images of Multiple Tissue Sections	p. 249
Molecular Mapping of Periodontal Tissues Using Infrared Microspectroscopy	p. 264
The Use of Coumarins as Environmentally-Sensitive Fluorescent Probes of Heterogeneous Inclusion Systems	p. 278
Stereochemistry of 16¿-Hydroxyfriedelin and 3-Oxo-16-Methylfriedel-16-Ene Established by 2D NMR Spectroscopy	p. 314
Index	p. 327
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