"Dear Reader"
Tony Davies has emailed us from Dortmund.
" .Somewhere you have discussed the issue of GRAMS spectra for
presentation....unfortunately I cannot find the comments....anyway I
would strongly recommend reading:
http://www.ijvs.com/volume1/edition4/section1.html#feature3
and starting to present the data JCAMP-DX files and then everyone can
read them. Which leads me to a second point...how about a search engine for the
site? (then I might be able to find the reference I want to make in the
future (!)) Anyway, time for tea... Tony Davies (Spelt the Welsh way not the English
please!)"
Sorry about the spelling Tony. A search engine is planned as we complete Vol II - see
Louise's comments in the Assistant Editorial. On the publication of spectra question - I
have asked you folks on several occasions for your views on the copyright problem and
no-one other than Tony has replied. Are you happy to have your spectra published in full digitally or do
you want the data degraded?
Brent Harvey has sent a very kind e-mail
which raises a point people like me in the UK probably forget.
"I am at a state university in Mexico, where it is hard to find
good reference literature on many subjects. I just skimmed through your first volume
and was impressed at the practical nature of it. There is a gap in the literature
for this type of information - something only personal communication, or expensive
training sessions can offer - most details of this nature are the domain of graduate
students and not the majority of those who present research results in public, or are
principal authors to written publications."
Dominic Mikulin has e-mailed from Melbourn here in the UK (not Melbourne in Australia)
and asked if anyone can point him towards the absorption spectrum of water over the WHOLE
electomagnetic spectrum. Folks like us normally know about the range 1 100µ
but can anyone help with the other bits.
Z.Q. Tian from the University of Xiamen in China has sent several
e-mails to which I replied on the Raman spectra of catalysts operating at high
temperatures. I pointed out that if you are using a NdYAG powered FTIR you cannot run
spectra above 180°C because of black body emmission, but you can go higher if you use a
filter -see . However, you can't go much above 270°C. Catalysts fluorensce and absorb the
laser hence you must rotate the sample. Has anyone any ideas of techniques that might help
Tian. He and his colleagues would like ideally to run up to 700°C!
Tian's e-mail address is zqtian@xmu.edu.cn.
Don't forget if you contact anyone with solutions to any queries highlighted on this
page, then PLEASE copy to me as well.
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