eprintid: 1542029 rev_number: 21 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/54/20/29 datestamp: 2017-02-19 07:22:10 lastmod: 2021-10-24 23:49:33 status_changed: 2017-05-23 13:03:31 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Realini, M creators_name: Conti, C creators_name: Botteon, A creators_name: Colombo, C creators_name: Matousek, P title: Development of a full micro-scale spatially offset Raman spectroscopy prototype as a portable analytical tool ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F42 note: Copyright © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Material from this article can be used in other publications provided that the correct acknowledgement is given with the reproduced material. abstract: We present, for the first time, a portable full micro-Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (micro-SORS) prototype permitting the in situ analysis of thin, highly turbid stratified layers at depths not accessible to conventional Raman microscopy. The technique is suitable for the characterisation of painted layers in panels, canvases and mural paintings, painted statues and decorated objects in cultural heritage or stratified polymers, and biological, catalytic and forensics samples where invasive analysis is undesirable or impossible to perform. The new device is characterised conceptually in polymer and paint layer systems. The provision of portability with full micro-SORS delivers subsurface micro-SORS capability unlocking the non-invasive and non-destructive potential of micro-SORS at its most effective form permitting it to be applied to large and non-portable objects in situ without recourse to removing micro-fragments for laboratory analysis on benchtop Raman microscopes. date: 2017-01-21 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6an02470j oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1208636 doi: 10.1039/c6an02470j lyricists_name: Matousek, Pavel lyricists_id: PMATO75 full_text_status: public publication: Analyst volume: 142 number: 2 pagerange: 351-355 issn: 1364-5528 citation: Realini, M; Conti, C; Botteon, A; Colombo, C; Matousek, P; (2017) Development of a full micro-scale spatially offset Raman spectroscopy prototype as a portable analytical tool. Analyst , 142 (2) pp. 351-355. 10.1039/c6an02470j <https://doi.org/10.1039/c6an02470j>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1542029/1/Realini_Development_full_micro-scale_spatially.pdf