{"id":198216,"date":"2024-10-24T04:25:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-successfully-increase-measurement-rate-of-raman-spectroscopy-by-100-fold"},"modified":"2024-10-24T04:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T09:25:15","slug":"scientists-successfully-increase-measurement-rate-of-raman-spectroscopy-by-100-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-successfully-increase-measurement-rate-of-raman-spectroscopy-by-100-fold","title":{"rendered":"Scientists successfully increase measurement rate of Raman spectroscopy by 100-fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-successfully-increase-measurement-rate-of-raman-spectroscopy-by-100-fold2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers Takuma Nakamura, Kazuki Hashimoto, and Takuro Ideguchi of the Institute for Photon Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo have increased by 100-fold the measurement rate of Raman spectroscopy, a common technique for measuring the \u201cvibrational fingerprint\u201d of molecules in order to identify them.<\/p>\n<p>As the measurement rate has been a major limiting factor, this improvement contributes to advancements in many fields that rely on identifying molecules and cells, such as biomedical diagnostics and material analytics. The findings were <a href=\"https:\/\/spj.science.org\/doi\/10.34133\/ultrafastscience.0076\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Ultrafast Science.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying various types of molecules and cells is a crucial step in both basic and applied science. Raman spectroscopy is a widely used measurement technique for this purpose. When a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+beam\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser beam<\/a> is projected onto molecules, the light interacts with the vibrations and rotations of molecular bonds, shifting the frequency of the scattering light. The scattering spectra thus measured is a molecule\u2019s unique \u201cvibrational fingerprint.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers Takuma Nakamura, Kazuki Hashimoto, and Takuro Ideguchi of the Institute for Photon Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo have increased by 100-fold the measurement rate of Raman spectroscopy, a common technique for measuring the \u201cvibrational fingerprint\u201d of molecules in order to identify them. As the measurement rate has been a major limiting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}