We are delighted to say that Professor Boris Mizaikoff and Dr Christine Kranz from the Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, University of Ulm visited the University of Warwick to give a talk on " New Ways of Combining Electrochemistry and Spectroscopy Toward Multifunctional Analytical Platforms".

The talk was inspiring and insightful, discussing the relative merits and challenges of combining different analytical techniques such as Infrared spectroscopy (IR), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)and Electrochemistry. The importance of minaturisation and instrument design in order to reach low detection limits was also discussed, including the groups success in creating a handheld IR device, using room-temperature operated tunable quantum cascade lasers (QCLs).