Soon to be a spin-off company, InspectT has developed a chip that can be easily integrated into an IR or UV/Vis spectrometer to characterize simultaneously the size and the chemical structure of molecules in a solution that you’re analysing.

Chemical analysis usually focuses on either the chemical composition of a molecule or its size. If you want to know both parameters, you have to combine spectroscopic analysis with other types of measurements, which require specific and often expensive instruments. ‘In addition, all instruments and methods have their limitations’, says Giulia Giubertoni, a research fellow working at the Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Science(HIMS), the chemistry department of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). ‘Having to perform analyses on several instruments costs time, money and wastes valuable materials.’