NIR NewsPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/09603360211067093
Y. Ozaki
{"title":"NIR spectroscopy – What a wonderful world!","authors":"Y. Ozaki","doi":"10.1177/09603360211067093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09603360211067093","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This review article for the Karl Norris Award Special Issue consists of four parts. First, the unique history of NIR spectroscopy is described briefly. Then, I discuss the main topic, “what a wonderful world – uniqueness and versatility of NIR spectroscopy.” Next, I introduce our NIR studies for the last 35 years – When did serendipity work in our minds? – a long way of NIR research in the Ozaki group. The investigations on spectral analysis, applications of NIR spectroscopy to physical chemistry, those to life science and NIR imaging studies are reported. Finally, the perspective of NIR spectroscopy is discussed briefly. Through this review, I emphasize on the importance of serendipity in the research.","PeriodicalId":113081,"journal":{"name":"NIR News","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131427904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NIR NewsPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/09603360211067097
C. Huck
{"title":"SAS – Society for Applied Spectroscopy Fellow Award for Christian Huck","authors":"C. Huck","doi":"10.1177/09603360211067097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09603360211067097","url":null,"abstract":"This award is established to recognize individual members for their outstanding achievements in and contributions to the science, the profession, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. The award consists of a plaque and recognition at the SAS annual meeting. Nomination for the award of Fellow must be made by current SAS Fellows, the Executive Committee, the Governing Board, or the Fellows Committee. The Fellows committee reviews all nominations and forwards the award slate to the SAS Executive Committee for final approval. Fellows must continue to be members in good standing of the Society in order to maintain Fellow status. On 28 September, Fellow Award was given to Christian Huck (Figure 1) for outstanding contributions in the field of analytical chemistry, focusing on novel vibrational spectroscopic technologies with emphasis put on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) (1) during Scix 2021 in Providence, USA, on 27 September. These contributions comprise miniaturization in spectroscopy (2), quantum chemistry for spectra simulation and band assignment (3), medicinal plant (4) and food quality (5), pharmaceutical (6) and material science (7), medicinal (8) and biotechnological (9) spectroscopy.","PeriodicalId":113081,"journal":{"name":"NIR News","volume":"213 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121639189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NIR NewsPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/09603360211065287
António Silva Ferreira, T. Fearn, Maria Lopes, Lola Pérez-Marín
{"title":"First SensorFINT workshop held in Porto","authors":"António Silva Ferreira, T. Fearn, Maria Lopes, Lola Pérez-Marín","doi":"10.1177/09603360211065287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09603360211065287","url":null,"abstract":"The first SensorFINT International Workshop of the COST Action 19145 “European Network for assuring food integrity using non-destructive spectral sensors” was hosted by the Faculty of Biotechnology of Universidade Cat olica Portuguesa, in Porto, on 30 September and 1 October 2021 (https://www. porto.ucp.pt/pt/sensorFINT2021). The workshop, which took place in a hybrid format, welcomed a total of 127 participants from 38 nations, with 57% attending in person and 43% online (Figure 1). See more details in our photo gallery (https://www.sensor fint.eu/2021/10/05/1st-sensorfint-international-worksh op-porto-photo-gallery/). The event, entitled “Smart Spectral Sensors for Agri-Food Quality and Process Control,” aimed to stimulate the interaction between a range of stakeholders with particular attention paid to highlighting the opportunities for including NIR sensors as a key part of the on-going digital transformation in food industries. In that regard, the event included several showcases from industry both from equipment manufacturers including Perkin Elmer and Bruker, industrial service providers such as AUNIR, and industrial endusers such as Barilla (Figure 2). From the local agrofood industrial ecosystem, and very importantly, the active presence of Portugal Foods, a federation of the majority of food companies in Portugal, deserves to be highlighted. The event counted also with Hamamatsu, EndressþHauser, and Siroco (mechatronics) as sponsors and active participants. The scientific programme included 16 oral and 36 poster presentations, which were articulated around three main topics. The first, “Smart Sensors in AgroFood,” covering the state of the art and the new domains of application, demonstrated the big advances that have been observed with the application of NIRS in the agri-food production process aiming to assure food integrity. The second topic covered the “Current Challenges in Process Control (PAT) for Food Analysis,” with the requirements for accuracy and sensitivity as well as calibration transferability between different devices being popular subjects. The Figure 2. Session dedicated to companies. Figure 1. Group photo in the First SensorFINT Workshop in Porto.","PeriodicalId":113081,"journal":{"name":"NIR News","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121129072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NIR NewsPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/09603360211066910
{"title":"Minutes of the General Assembly (GA) of the International Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy held during the 20th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Organized on Zoom by China Team on Tuesday 19 October 2021 (online)","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/09603360211066910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09603360211066910","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":113081,"journal":{"name":"NIR News","volume":"52 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120848277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NIR NewsPub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.1177/09603360211064611
Andrés D. Román-Ospino
{"title":"2022 International diffuse reflectance conference","authors":"Andrés D. Román-Ospino","doi":"10.1177/09603360211064611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09603360211064611","url":null,"abstract":"The 2022 International Diffuse Reflectance Conference will bring together outstanding scientists to discuss their work from the fundamentals of vibrational spectroscopy to the implementation of analytical methods across various industries. The “Chambersburg Conference” will hold sessions from July 30th and to Aug 5th, 2022. It is an excellent opportunity to meet collaborators and the main contributors in areas such as chemometrics, sampling, hyperspectral imaging, and process analytical technology. Recent advances in instrumentation, analytical tools, and methods to enable fast and robust measurements for environmental, agriculture, chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical applications will be discussed along with current and upcoming trends. As in previous editions, the conference will kick off with short courses in vibrational spectroscopy, chemometrics, and data pretreatments for general and intermediate levels. The morning and evening sessions will be complemented with staple activities such as “Predicting your own time” where the time spent walking or running across a nearby trail based on a previous calibration run will be performed and the “chemometrics shootout” where a challenging data set is provided a few weeks before the conference for participants to use their skills and develop the best models. Finally, the 2020 and 2022 Birth Awards will be presented during the closing ceremony. The conference will be in honor to one of its founders, Karl Norris, and a Memorial Session will be organized by his lifelong friend and colleague Phil Williams.","PeriodicalId":113081,"journal":{"name":"NIR News","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131308077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NIR NewsPub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1177/09603360211062706
H. Martens
{"title":"Interpretable machine learning with an eye for the physics: Hyperspectral Vis/NIR “video” of drying wood analyzed by hybrid subspace modeling","authors":"H. Martens","doi":"10.1177/09603360211062706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09603360211062706","url":null,"abstract":"Chemometric multivariate analysis based on low-dimensional linear and bilinear data modelling is presented as a fast and interpretable alternative to more fancy “AI” for practical use of Big Data streams from hyperspectral “video” cameras. The purpose of the present illustration is to find, quantify and understand the various known and unknown factors affecting the process of drying moist wood. It involves an “interpretable machine learning” that analyses more than 350 million absorbance spectra, requiring 418 GB of data storage, without the use of black box operations. The 159-channel high-resolution hyperspectral wood “video” in the 500–1005 nm range was reduced to five known and four unknown variation components of physical and chemical nature, each with its spectral, spatial and temporal parameters quantified. Together, this 9-dimensional linear model explained more than 99.98% of the total input variance.","PeriodicalId":113081,"journal":{"name":"NIR News","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114908375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NIR NewsPub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1177/09603360211060966
K. Beć
{"title":"A Simple guide to complex world of overtone and combination bands: Theoretical simulation and interpretation of NIR spectra – summary of the workshop at NIR-2021 Beijing Conference","authors":"K. Beć","doi":"10.1177/09603360211060966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09603360211060966","url":null,"abstract":"Between 18 and 21 October 2021, the 20th International Conference on NIR spectroscopy in Beijing took place. Despite this time being held as a virtual event, it was a highly successful symposium met with high interest from the wide audience – as evidenced by many excellent presentations, around which numerous vivid discussions developed. During the conference, four workshops were offered, focused at discussing few areas essential for NIR spectroscopy and its applications. Excellent workshops were provided by Professors Heinz Siesler, Hui Yan, Dolores Pérez-Marín and Tom Fearn, in which invaluable knowledge was shared with the participants of the conference. Among these renowned experts, I had the honour to offer my contribution with the workshop aimed at the physicochemical foundations of NIR spectroscopy, an area that seldom is exhaustively presented in the textbooks. The workshop aimed at shedding light on the complex world of overtone and combination bands and was met with a considerable interest from the participants. As many questions have been asked both during the dedicated Q&A session, as well as through other channels and private correspondence, I would like to provide a short recapitulation of the workshop in the form of this brief article. Some of the most essential ‘take home messages’, such as the origin of the intensity variation of the overtone bands and the famous ‘selection rule’ of the harmonic oscillator, among others will be briefly outlined here.","PeriodicalId":113081,"journal":{"name":"NIR News","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116949290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NIR NewsPub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1177/09603360211059276
B. Giussani
{"title":"Smart analytical methods and applied chemometrics group – Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria in Como","authors":"B. Giussani","doi":"10.1177/09603360211059276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09603360211059276","url":null,"abstract":"Research in applied chemometrics in Como began at the end of the 90s, thanks to prof. Andrea Pozzi, associate professor of analytical chemistry in the Faculty of Sciences (currently Department of Science and High Technology) in Como. Working with cultural heritage and environment, he understood the importance of multivariate analysis techniques both in the optimization of analytical methods and in the analysis of complex data. Prof. Pozzi owes his training to prof. Roberto Todeschini, head of the Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group, and since then he transmitted his passion for chemometrics to his students and among them to Barbara Giussani, a young student (this was me at that time!) interested in analytical chemistry. In 2000 I decided to improve my knowledge in chemometrics with an ERASMUS period at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona), under the supervision of prof. Ricard Boqu e, and since that time applied chemometrics has become my main research topic. Interestingly, the first data set that prof. Boqu e gave me and on which he gave me the very first bases of Principal Component Analysis, concerned forages analysed by NIR spectroscopy. Giulia Gorla, PhD student","PeriodicalId":113081,"journal":{"name":"NIR News","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129589557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NIR NewsPub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.1177/09603360211059287
Lorenzo Serva, M. Mirisola, A. D. Zotte
{"title":"Chemometrics, NIRS-XRF and wet chemistry laboratory, and research Group – Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health, University of Padova","authors":"Lorenzo Serva, M. Mirisola, A. D. Zotte","doi":"10.1177/09603360211059287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09603360211059287","url":null,"abstract":"Italian researchers involved in near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy present themselves to the international community. Following the example of these colleagues, we introduce the activity of the NIRSXRF-wet chemistry laboratory and the active research groups. The NIRS section of the laboratory was founded in 1994, from the intuition of Igino Andrighetto and Paolo Berzaghi, with the purchase of a NIRSystem 5000 monochromator instrument (FOSS, Hilleroed, DK). The laboratory immediately assumes relevance in applicative research in the agriculture field and attracts the interest of private companies and farmers who start stipulating contracts for analyses, even due to the intuition of calibrating the instrument for the rapid analysis of wet samples, such as fodder, food, rations for cows, etc. Paolo Berzaghi distinguishes himself in the international NIR community due to his close contact with John Shenk. In 1992, Antonella Dalle Zotte also began to approach NIR technology thanks to the collaboration with Giorgio Masoero, one of the Italian pioneers of NIR technology, focusing the first studies on the quality estimation of muscle foods with NIR instruments. Massimo Mirisola and Lorenzo Serva join the laboratory in subsequent years, and new instruments are purchased: a second NIRSystem 5000 (spinning cup module) and a CORONA 45 (CARL ZEISS AG, Jena, DE). In the early 2000s, the field of interest expands to human food quality and authenticity. Between 2004 and 2010, the research group turns its attention to portable instruments, and research is carried out for their application on agricultural machinery, such as combine harvesters, mixer wagons and grape harvesting machines, working in close collaboration with the industry. The new commitments require the hiring of two young graduates, Francesco Benozzo and Jacopo Ferlito. Subsequently, two startups are founded, Grainit Srl (Padova, IT) and ITPhotonics (Fara Vicentino, IT), and some patents are filed on the implementation of NIR instrument or its application on operating machines. In 2011, the research laboratory is included in the Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health (MAPS) and provides wet chemistry, NIRS and X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyses, also offering a commercial service to interested stakeholders (in particular to agriculture and livestock sectors). The laboratory purchases a Spectrastar 2500 (Unity Scientific, Milford, MA, USA) and a Nicolet Avatar 360 FT-IR (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, Waltham, MA, USA), and as such equipped, it also responds to the growing demand for analytical service for products and byproducts destined for biogas production plants. In recent years, following the development of portable instruments, the laboratory provides a calibration rental service. In 2015 Antonella Dalle Zotte takes over the scientific direction of the laboratory. Sandro Tenti becomes part of the laboratory staff, and the laboratory is equipped with chromatographic analysis instrument","PeriodicalId":113081,"journal":{"name":"NIR News","volume":"111 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120984286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}