Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

1. Introduction.- 2. Theory of NIR Spectroscopy.- 3. Spectral Analysis in NIR Spectroscopy.- 4. Chemometrics.- 5. Instrumentation.- 6. Method Development.- 7. Applications: Physical Chemistry.- 8. Applications: Agriculture and Food Science and Technology.- 9. Applications: Pharmaceuticals.- 10. Applications: Bioscience.- 11. Applications: Medical Science.- 12. Applications: Polymers.- 13. Imaging.- 14. Applications: On-line Analysis. 

Yukihiro Ozaki received his PhD from Osaka University in 1978. His research interest includes basic studies and applications of NIR, IR, Raman, FUV and Terahertz spectroscopy. He is currently professor emeritus of Kwansei Gakuin University. He published many books; for example, S. Sasic and Y. Ozaki ed.: Raman, Infrared, and Near-Infrared Chemical Imaging, John Wiley & Sons (2010).  Y. Ozaki, K. Kneipp, and R. Aroca eds.: Frontiers of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering : Single Nanoparticles and Single Cells, Wiley (2014). Y. Ozaki and S. Kawata eds.: Far- and Deep-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Springer (2015). K. Kneipp, Y. Ozaki and Z.-Q. Tian, eds.: 45 years enhanced Raman signals - recent developments in plasmon supported Raman spectroscopy, World Scientific, in press (2017). M. Wojcik, B. Kirtman, H. Nakatsuji, Y. Ozaki, eds.: Frontiers of Quantum Chemistry, Springer (2017). He won the Tomas Hirschfeld Award (1998), EAS Award in Achievement in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy(2001), Gerald S. Birth Award (2006), Bomem-Michelson Award (2014). The Chemical Society of Japan Award (2017), The Medal with Purple Ribbon (2018), Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award (2019). He has about 35 years of teaching experience.


Christian W. Huck received his PhD from Innsbruck University in 1998 and received his habilitation in 2006. In 2014 he received a call to the University of Stuttgart. In 2016 he followed a call to the University of Innsbruck where he currently holds the position of a full professor for analytical chemistry. His research interest includes vibrational spectroscopy with main focus on NIR, Chemometrics and other analytical techniques and was the receiver of Tomas Hirschfeld award (THA) in 2018.

Satoru Tsuchikawa received his PhD from Nagoya University in 1998. His research interest includes applications of NIR, IR, and Terahertz spectroscopy to agricultural and wood sciences. He published more than 120 peer reviewed papers