Scientific evenings
University of Nova Gorica invites to the lecture: "Photothermal spectroscopic methods and their applications in environmental and food sciences" by Prof. Dr. Dane Bićanić (Laboratory of Biophysics, Wageningen University and Research Centre).
Lecture will take place on Wednesday, 17 October 2012 at 7 p.m. at the mansion Zemono (Vipava).
Photothermal (PT) phenomena are generated whenever the energy absorbed by the sample (in any aggregate state) exposed to a periodically modulated (or pulsed)) radiation is converted to heat. Such a localized heating produces a variety of effects (change of density, refractive index, etc.) that can be probed by a diversity of specific PT methods. Common to all methods is the fact that the generated heat can be determined directly. By virtue of their operational principles, PT methods allow for optical and thermal characterization of sample under investigation offering thereby some unique advantages above the traditional spectroscopic methods. The PT detection methods are used either alone or in the hyphenated-mode together with existing methods of chemical analysis.
Despite strong developments in recent years and their demonstrated versatility, PT methods have surprisingly remained unknown to a wide scientific community thus far. Several PT methods will therefore be depicted and underlying principles explained in extenso. Likewise, the necessary instrumentation is discussed in more detail.
Finally, several analytical applications of PT methods from the field of environmental and food sciences will be presented.
Lecture will be in English.
Kindly invited!
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