New tool, new opportunities SciAps created the world’s first handheld LIBS primarily to help the metals analysis industries more profitably verify carbon and carbon equivalents at rugged or remote job sites. But it didn’t take long for researchers around the ...
Screening for Conflict Minerals: Columbite-Tantalite and Beyond
One important application for SciAps handheld LIBS is the identification of the geographic source of so-called “conflict minerals,” which are used as raw materials for components of consumer electronics. Such information helps companies and their customers understand whether their purchasing decisions are ...
Have LIBS, will travel
Meet Dr. Richard Hark, synthetic organic chemist, conservation scientist and LIBS enthusiast Handheld LIBS and Dr. Richard Hark have a long relationship that reads like an adventure series, where partnership with a company like SciAps leads to unexpected places. “I ...
Soil nutrient detection for precision agriculture with handheld LIBS
Publication: Erler, A.; Riebe, D.; Beitz, T.; Löhmannsröben, H.-G.; Gebbers, R. Soil Nutrient Detection for Precision Agriculture Using Handheld Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and Multivariate Regression Methods (PLSR, Lasso and GPR). Sensors 2020, 20, 418. A new study using SciAps ...
Measuring Elements in Tea with Handheld LIBS
Application of LIBS in Detecting Beneficial Elements & Contaminants in Tea Samples Before Covid-19 hit the United States, Dr. Ying Guo, Dr. Seungjin Lee and Dr. Tae Lee from Georgia Gwinnett College began a unique elemental analysis using the SciAps ...
Handheld LIBS used to measure beryllium in nuclear waste
Publication: B.A. Crawford, D.M. Brigham, J.F. Lucchini, Technology Applicable to Remote Hazardous Constituents and Waste Stream Grouping, Los Alamos National Laboratory report, LA-UR-19-32751 (2019). Handheld LIBS is relevant to identifying nuclear waste, simple to use in the field. The ...
Optimisation of fast quantification of fluorine content using handheld LIBS
Expanding the world of handheld analysis with SciAps LIBS Fluorine quantification is difficult using conventional techniques since it usually includes heavy sample preparation such as dissolution. Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) provides a multi-element detection that has been successfully used to ...
Expanding Global Soil Management with SciAps Handheld LIBS
A prototype of the platform that will integrate the LIBS sensor in the future. Courtesy BonaRes/I4S Handheld LIBS makes it possible to analyze every square meter of soil, in place and in real time. Courtesy BonaRes/I4S LIBS emerges as a ...
Technical Note: Handheld LIBS Provides a Fast and Easy Method to Trace Gold
Handheld LIBS is relevant to gold traceability, and is simple to use in the field. A new study published as a Technical Note in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS) demonstrates LIBS as a fast and easy method to …
Measuring Lead in Tap Water with Handheld XRF
Dr. Marya Lieberman, an analytical chemist at University of Notre Dame, was driving to work early in 2017 when she heard a story that changed the course of her work. NPR aired a Reuters investigative story revealing that thousands of ...
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