Bruker co-hosts 2 day workshop with demos!: NUANCE

Bruker co-hosts 2 day workshop with demos!

July 16, 2025

NUANCE was pleased to co-host a two-day workshop in collaboration with Bruker on July 16^th and 17^th .

The morning of Thursday July 16^th started off with a warm welcome by NUANCE Director Vinayak Dravid followed by talks including: Accelerating Scientific Breakthroughs with NUance: Infrastructure, Expertise, and Impact by our SPID Facility Manager Dr. Gajendra S. Shekhawat, IR Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Introduction and Applications of Photothermal AFM-IR by Dr. Jin Hee Kim, from Bruker, and Correlative AFM-IR Mapping for Polymer Applications by Dr. Cassandra Phillips, also with Bruker.

Following the morning session of talks and lunch were demos in the afternoon as well as an all day on the 17^th, with Bruker’s Dimension IconIR and Dimension Icon. With a great turnout to both the talks and demos, it was a successful event by all accounts!

VPD Welcomes the group — NUANCE Director, Prof. Vinayak Dravid welcomes the participants to the two-day workshop

Rick from Bruker introduces the speakers — Dr. Gajendra Shekhawat, NUANCE SPID Facility Manager presents his talk

Dr. Jin Hee Kim from Bruker presenting IR Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Introduction and Applications of Photothermal AFM-IR

Hikari Rick Kitadai, PhD, Bruker, introducing the Bruker Instrumentation

Rick Kitadai, PhD and Dr. Cassandra Phillips, Bruker — Hikari Rick Kitadai, PhD (left) introducing Dr. Cassandra Phillips, Bruker (right). Dr. Phillips presented: *Correlative AFM-IR Mapping for Polymer Applications*

lining up to demo samples — Queuing up to demo individual samples