INFRARED AND UV-VIS ESPECTROSCOPY
Scientific Supervisor: Ricardo Molina
The activities developed by the Infrared and ultraviolet-visible Spectroscopy Service have focused, in recent years, on the qualitative and quantitative characterization of materials and chemical compounds. It is worth highlighting the use of infrared spectroscopy for the characterization of polymeric nanoparticles, coatings in textile materials, advanced polymeric films, liposomes or chemicals in solution and degradation kinetics of chemical or radical compounds.
Ricardo Molina
Scientific Supervisor
ricardo.molina@iqac.csic.es
The Infrared and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy service is equipped with:
Middle infrared spectrophotometer (FTIR Avatar 360) with different accessories in order to perform analysis of liquids, films, textile materials and/or powdered substrates. In this way, transmission measurements of chemical and pharmaceutical products can be performed in KBr pellets or over NaCl crystals. The service is also equipped with attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessories in order to analyze solid, powdered or films (diamond ATR, vertical and horizontal ZnSe ATR) and liquids (horizontal ATR tray).
UV-Visible Cary 400 spectrophotometer (175-900 nm) in order to perform characterization, quantitative analysis and reactions kinetics or chemical compounds.
SpectraMAX M5 multi-mode microplate reader (200 nm – 1000 nm). For life sciences research, the system is well suited for ELISA, nucleic acid, protein quantification, enzymatic, cell viability and proliferation assays.
