Specto Photonics and international research partners have developed a multimodal spectroscopy platform that measures these properties from the same voxel of laser light, without touching or labelling the sample.
The method captures the full vibrational spectrum, combining Brillouin, ultra-low-frequency Raman and conventional Raman signals to provide a more complete view of the material.
Tested on indomethacin, ibuprofen and paracetamol, the platform distinguished between hard-to-detect amorphous forms of the same drug and mapped material variation across an ibuprofen tablet, demonstrating early impact for pharmaceutical analysis.
Published in Nature Communications, the study was developed with Politecnico di Milano and international academic partners. It marks an important step toward fully optical instruments with potential across biomedical research and materials science.
Read the full article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74558-z