Spectroscopy Atomic Award Form, updated

Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are emerging contaminants requiring robust analytical techniques for identification and quantification in diverse environmental and biological matrices. This review highlights various spectroscopy methods, such as Raman, FT-IR, NIR, ICP-MS, Fluorescence, X-ray, and NMR detailing their methodologies, sample handling, and applications for characterizing MPs and NPs.

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is being used frequently in space exploration missions. In this article, we review how LIBS is being used to increase our knowledge of the Moon and certain asteroids.

A Monday morning session at the Eastern Analytical Symposium in Plainsboro, New Jersey, highlighted hyperspectral and biological imaging techniques.

Researchers from UCLA have developed a novel method to synthesize and stabilize anti-Bredt olefins (ABOs), defying long-held beliefs about their instability. This breakthrough, published in Science, paves the way for new applications in synthetic chemistry by leveraging the unique reactivity of these geometrically distorted molecules.