Getting the Most Out of Your FTIR Liquid Cell
If you've ever spent an afternoon trying to get a clean spectrum only to realize your ftir liquid cell was leaking or had a stubborn air bubble right in the path of the beam, you know exactly how finicky these things can be. It's one of those tools in the lab that looks incredibly simple—just two windows and a spacer, right?—but actually requires a bit of a "magic touch" to get perfect results. While many labs are moving toward ATR (Attenuated Total Reflection) because it's fast and easy, transmission liquid cells are still the gold standard for quantitative work and for samples that don't play nice with a diamond crystal. ...