Spectra: Encyclopedias and Handbooks

Explores the factors necessary to perform accurate and time- and cost-effective analyses across a growing spectrum of disciplines, incorporating the latest advances in instrumentation, computerization, chemometrics applied to NIR spectroscopy, and method development in NIR spectroscopy, and underscores current trends in sample preparation, calibration transfer, process control, data analysis, instrument performance testing, and commercial NIR instrumentation. [4th edition, 2021]

Recent studies post 2008 and key information on NMR, MRI, and ESR and their applications. [2nd edition, 2020]

Provides detailed technical information on characterization techniques, including applications and limitations, that will enable readers to select and use analytical techniques that are appropriate for their problem.Also information on whether the technique is suitable for elemental analysis, qualitative analysis, surface analysis, or alloy verification. [2019]

Provides a solid introduction to vibrational spectroscopy with an emphasis on developing critical interpretation skills. Fully integrates the use of both IR and Raman spectroscopy as spectral interpretation tools, enabling the user to utilize the strength of both techniques while also recognizing their weaknesses. [2nd edition, 2018]

This book focuses on the widely used experimental techniques available for the structural, morphological, and spectroscopic characterization of materials. Includes chapters on FTIR, Raman, Optical, Photoelectron, X-Ray Absorption, and 31P-NMR. [2018]

Authoritative and comprehensive coverage of all aspects of spectroscopy and closely related subjects that use the same fundamental principles, including mass spectrometry, imaging techniques and applications. It includes the history, theoretical background, details of instrumentation and technology, and current applications of the key areas of spectroscopy. [3rd edition, 2017]

Describes and analyzes the development of many aspects of Mass Spectrometry. Beginning with the earliest types of Mass Analyzers, Historical Perspectives explores the development of many different forms of analytical processes and methods. The work follows various instruments and interfaces, to the current state of detectors and computerization. [2016]

Describes the most important NMR spectroscopy techniques for the structure elucidation of organic molecules and the investigation of their behaviour in solution. Covers practical aspects of NMR techniques and instrumentation, data collection, and spectrum interpretation. [2016]

Briefly reviews the lives and works of many of the major people who carried out this development, providing insights into the history of mass spectrometry applications through the personal stories of pioneers and innovators in the field. (2015)

Provides a detailed overview, ranging from fundamentals to applications, including a section on the evaluation of GC-MS analyses, covering all aspects, including the theory and principles, as well as a broad range of real-life examples taken from laboratories in environmental, food, pharmaceutical and clinical analysis. [3rd edition, 2015]

Provides a straightforward introduction to spectroscopy, showing what it can do and how it does it, together with a clear, integrated and objective account of the wealth of information that may be derived from spectra. It covers everything from spectroscopy in nanodimensions to medicinal applications, spanning a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum and the physical processes involved, from nuclear phenomena to molecular rotation processes. [2nd edition, 2014]

Provides an extensive library of methods used in mass spectrometry, covering applications of mass spectrometry in diverse fields. Provides the reader with a protocol for the technique described (including sampling methods) and explains why to use a particular method and not others. [2012]

Providing much-needed information on fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy, this ready reference covers detection techniques, data registration, and the use of spectroscopic tools, as well as new techniques for improving the resolution of optical microscopy below the resolution gap. [2011]