Laser Analytics

The central theme of our research activities lies in the development of modern laser spectroscopic methods to visualise and quantify dynamic chemical processes in applications ranging from environmental and process sensing to biomedical applications. We have developed tools that allow the fast probing of exothermic chemistry in reactive flows and the research is used, for example, in the design of next generation, low emission aero-engines. On a very different scale we have succeeded in visualising chemical reactions inside single living cells; optical tools that help in the design and testing of novel drugs.

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