“Mutant strains of a new coronavirus can be distinguished by Raman microscopy. I was surprised to hear Professor Giuseppe Pezzotti of the Kyoto Institute of Technology say this. When a laser beam is shone on a material, Raman scattered light reflecting differences in structure at the molecular level is emitted. Raman microscopy makes use of this phenomenon, and he said that the differences between the mutant strains of COVID-19 also appear as differences in Raman spectra. This is the first in a series of articles introducing companies and laboratories that have introduced Nanophoton’s Raman microscope. In this issue, we visited the Laboratory of Ceramic Physics at the Graduate School of … Continue reading Case Studies (4/28/2021)
Raman microscopy to identify COVID-19 / Prof. Pezzotti, Kyoto Institute of Technology