Dr Jonathan Burley from the University of Nottingham one of the market’s smallest Raman spectrometers in his academic research.
Dr Jonathan Burley is a lecturer in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology at Nottingham University.
His research interests focus on measuring and understanding change in pharmaceutical materials.
This includes changes that occur with time, temperature, position in sample, addition of solvent, etc.
Phenomena of interest include crystallisation, polymorphism, hydration, dehydration, mapping of components in tablets and other drug delivery vehicles, formation of salts and co-crystals.
While he uses a multitude of analytical techniques, he is particularly interested in those which produce rapid spatial analysis results when mapping tablets and complex drug delivery vehicles.
This is also recognised as important for the quality of control of medicines and understanding controlled release processes.
One new technique being applied in the laboratory is the RAPID.ID palm-sized Raman spectrometer supplied by Analytik.
The compact and rugged design of the RAPID.ID makes it an ideal screening tool to help with the most routine of testing challenges helping to make Raman spectroscopy accessible to all.
