Surface Measurement and Beyond-Nondestructive Testing with Handheld FTIR and SORS Raman Spectroscopy
Whether you're working in agriculture, food, material science, or cultural heritage, you’ll gain the ability to uncover hidden chemical details on coatings, surfaces, and materials even through opaque packaging, films, or glass containers.
With no sample preparation, no consumables, and intuitive handheld operation, these robust instruments bring lab-quality performance directly to the field–get excellent spectra everywhere!
By attending this webinar, you’ll discover how these technologies enable:
- Nondestructive, real-time detection of plant diseases, plant exposure to herbicides, phenotyping, and different plant stresses (abiotic stresses like water deficit, heat, light-induced, and salinity stresses, and biotic stresses).
- Food safety and quality control for example authentication and adulteration of honey.
- Authentication of preservation fluids.
- Chemical detail in heritage artifacts or detection of endangered animal species.
- Polymer ID and degradation, film thickness, and adhesive ID through a topcoat film.
By attending this webinar, you'll:
- Learn how SORS Raman and infrared technologies complement each others.
- Understand the strengths of each technique and how they can work together to provide a more complete chemical analysis—noninvasively and in real time.
- Explore practical case studies in agriculture, food safety, and heritage science.
- See how easy it is to operate the systems—from sample scanning to data interpretation—using intuitive software and handheld devices.
Who should attend?
- Agriculture scientists
- Academic researchers
- Material research scientists
- Art conservators
- Food researchers
- Counterfeit auditors and regulators
Presenter: Jan Wülfken (Product Specialist, Raman Spectroscopy, Agilent Technologies)
Jan Wulfken graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1997, first with a diploma thesis about NMR-based conformation analysis of an antimicrobial peptide, and again in 2001 with his PhD thesis about developing CD4-binding peptides as inhibitors for HIV infection. He joined Varian, inc. in 2001 as a sales representative for molecular spectroscopy. With the acquisition of Varian in 2010 by Agilent, he took over the position of a product specialist for molecular spectroscopy in the Agilent International Distributor Organization (IDO). Today, his responsibility is the full Agilent molecular spectroscopy portfolio, including UV-Vis, UV-Vis/NIR, fluorescence, FTIR, and Raman spectroscopy, in IDO.
Presenter: Donald Inglis (Product Specialist, Handheld FTIR Spectroscopy, Agilent Technologies)
Donald Inglis studied electronics at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has worked in analytical instrumentation for over 30 years. He started his career as a field service engineer in chromatography and mass spectrometry before moving into commercial sales and then on to becoming a product specialist in portable, handheld FTIR and Raman systems over a decade ago at Agilent. His product specialist role at Agilent involves advising customers and building solutions for the various analytical challenges they face within their workspace.
