Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics

Department

The department of Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics consists of the Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics research group (AC&C) and the Life Science Trace Detection Laboratory (TDLab). The AC&C research group focuses on chemometrics. This is the discipline within chemistry that develops methods to extract relevant information from chemical data. This ranges from simple localisation of data to prediction of, for instance, concentrations or finding biologically interesting molecules in complex mixtures. Research of the TDLab focuses on experimental methods for reliable detection and quantification of volatile compounds in complex gas mixtures. The department is part of Institute of Molecules and Materials (IMM).

Below are the highlights of the Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics group. View all News, Publications, Projects, Staff, and Vacancies.

Highlights

NWO Open Technology Grants on drug development technology and green chemical industry

04 June 2024 Research news item

Two projects involving researchers from the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM), have been awarded a NWO Technology Grant for application-oriented technical-scientific research that is free from disciplinary boundaries.

EUROSTARS grant for energy efficient fruit quality monitoring

05 February 2024 Research news item

Eurostars grant on research & development activities to the next level. They focus on providing solutions reducing storage energy consumption by promoting green and energy efficient fresh fruit storage & sustainable agriculture

Grant of €700,000 to gain better understanding of nitrogen dioxide with GELSONDE

30 January 2024 Research news item

Nitrogen dioxide is a gas that accounts for a large proportion of nitrogen precipitation and is difficult to measure. This may change with the GELSONDE project in which Radboud scientists are collaborating with KNMI and SensorSense.

Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics

Research of the Analytical Chemistry & Chemometrics group is centered around two main research philosophies.

Methodological Chemometrics

(Further) development of chemometric methods to tackle new challenges in chemistry and beyond: methodological research on chemometrical techniques like global optimisation methods, and multivariate statistics.

Application Oriented Research

These chemometric methods are applied and validated for pioneering science in chemistry and biology. This encompasses for instance image processing and spectroscopic analysis (NIR, LC-MS/MS) for industrial and medical applications.

Publications

Life Science Trace Detection Laboratory

Research in the Trace Detection Laboratory (TDLab) focuses on reliable detection and quantification of volatile compounds in complex gas mixtures. TDLab develops and applies techniques and analytical methodologies using state-of-the-art laser-based spectroscopy and mass spectrometry for a wide range of gas concentrations.

Applications in Life Science Areas

Biomarkers detection
Monitoring for precision medicine, fruit storage and dairy farming
Air pollution monitoring, plasma diagnostics

More information about TD Lab

Breath analysis

Internships

Both research groups AC&C and TDLab offer various Bachelor's and Master's courses, incidental courses and Bachelor's and Master's internships.

Would you like to do your internship at our department? Please see the AC&C internships or the TDLab internships and get in touch for more information. A few examples of relevant subjects are:

Multispecies open-path molecular absorption spectroscopy
Anomaly Detection in HSI Using Data Inner Polygon
Data Analysis for optimization of Redox Flow Battery Systems
Modelling of emission fluxes from spectroscopic data
Predicting properties of aramid yarn using near-infrared spectra
In-situ spectroscopy of plasmas
Mass spectrometry: Detecting VOCs from faecal and caecal samples in relation to poultry intestinal health