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FTIR v2

Infrared Spectroscopy Suite

Laboratory for Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy - simple, reliable methods for characterising solids, liquids, and gases. These techniques can identify unknown compounds, monitor reactions, and quantify compounds with minimal sample preparation and high throughput. Chemometric approaches allow for advanced data analysis, enabling classification and quantification with large, complex data sets. Infrared microscopy combines FTIR spectroscopy with traditional light microscopy to provide ‘point and shoot’ analysis of very small structures and chemical imaging of biological specimens. Scion specialises in infrared spectroscopy of plant derived materials, plastics, composites, soils, and microplastics.

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Bruker NIR

NIR Spectrometer - Bruker MPA

Near-Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is typically used for rapid, non-destructive, and real-time quantitative analysis of materials in agriculture, forestry, food, pharmaceuticals, and chemical industries. It is typically used to measure the composition of materials (e.g. moisture, protein, tannins, lignins, resins, active ingredients). Unlike MIR, it is not well suited to determine the chemical structure of a compound.
BSI Rotorua has a Bruker MPA FT-NIR benchtop instrument with three separate detectors: a) an integrating sphere which is particularly suited to measure solids and powder b) a remote probe on a fibre-optic cable for samples which cannot be placed onto the instrument or for submersion in a reaction c) a transmission unit for liquid samples and films.
The instrument has been used for e.g. composition of bark extracts, thermal treatment levels of timber, durability of timber, composition of polyester films and to monitor the reaction progress of a bio-adhesive cook.

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Bruker Icon IR

Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - Bruker Dimension IconIR

Bruker’s large-sample Dimension IconIR is a combined nanoscale infrared (IR) spectroscopy and scanning probe microscope (SPM) system that combines spectroscopy, imaging, and property mapping performance on a single platform.

Webpage: https://profiles.canterbury.ac.nz/equipment/388838

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