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Advantages of In-House Generation of Nitrogen for HPLC With Evaporative Light Scattering Detection
Friday, January 01, 2010
Peter Froehlich Corky Belobraydich
Evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD) is a universal detection technique for HPLC that provides a number of distinct advantages over other commonly employed detection methods such as UV-VIS ... read more
Advancing Food Safety Technology Into the 21st Century
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Mukta Shukla
Since the dawn of civilization, access to safe food and water has been vital for the survival and health of human and animal populations. read more
Advances in Porous Layer Open Tubular Columns
Friday, April 02, 2010
Jaap de Zeeuw Bill Bromps Tom Vezza Rick Morehead Gary Stidsen
Porous layer open tubular (PLOT) columns have been very beneficial for solving application problems, especially for the analysis of volatile compounds. The columns’ high selectivity of adsorbents ... read more
Advances in Microscale Protein Fractionation and Analysis
Monday, January 01, 2007
Julie S. Hey
Fractionation is an essential step in the identification of proteins and their subsequent structural characterization. read more
Advances in Mass Spectrometry at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Brian Musselman
This has been a busy year for mass spectrometry companies and with the Triennial International Conference on Mass Spectrometry occurring last fall. This year at Pittcon®, several new high-end mass ... read more
Advances in Liquid Phase Separation at Pittcon® 2012
Monday, May 07, 2012
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Eight years have passed since Waters introduced the ACQUITY UPLC®. This is a long life cycle for a groundbreaking instrument. read more
Advances in Gas Chromatography Instrumentation at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The buzzwords for Pittcon® 2013 in gas chromatography instrumentation were “smaller,” “portable,” and “helium.” Despite the fact that some of the major vendors did not exhibit, others were on hand ... read more
Advances in Flashpoint Testing: Economic Impact
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Hannes Pichler
Flashpoint testing is one of the oldest methods of the ASTM D02 Committee on Petroleum Products and Lubricants, which was formed in 1904. read more
Advances in Accurate-Mass TOF and Q-TOF LC-MS Systems
Friday, August 29, 2008
Ken Imatani
Due to the growing interest in the comparative analysis of biological samples in the fields of biomarker discovery and metabolomics, the complexity of samples faced by researchers is greater than ever... read more
Advancements in Photoacoustic Spectroscopy: A Powerful, Cost-Effective Tool for Process Control and Troubleshooting at All Scales of Fermentation
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Lenny Shaver
There is an increasing demand for a dedicated, high-quality, and easy-to-use instrument to measure off-gas exhaust in laboratories and industrial settings during the fermentation process. read more
Advancements in Instrumentation for Viscosity Measurements
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Robert G. McGregor
The electronics revolution within the instrumentation industry has continued at an extraordinary pace, as can be seen with the many recent improvements in display technology and “smart” operating ... read more
Advanced Techniques for Genomics and Proteomics: Transitional Structural Chemogenomics, Chemoproteomics, Pharmacogenomics, and Pharmacoproteomics
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Claude E. Gagna W. Clark Lambert Peter C. Lambert
Genome sequences and proteomic data are becoming available to researchers for an increasing number of normal genes and different pathologies. read more
Advanced Dryness Detection for Improved Throughput and Yield During Evaporation
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Rob Darrington David Griffin
In many laboratories across a wide range of disciplines, removal of solvent from dissolved sample is a routine, daily procedure. read more
Addressing New Challenges in the Field of Growth Promoters in Biological Samples
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Fabrice Monteau Jean-Philippe Antignac Gaud Pinel Paul Silcock Peter Hancock Bruno Le Bizec
The safety of our food supply can no longer be taken for granted. As the world changes and populations continue to grow, so will the responsibility of organizations to meet the demand for safe ... read more
Acidic Digestion of Soils to Determine Mercury Concentration
Friday, June 01, 2007
Pamela F. Heckel Tim C. Keener
Soils are notoriously heterogeneous and difficult to analyze. The authors developed a digestion method to extract mercury from clay soils using relatively inexpensive cold vapor atomic absorption ... read more
Achieving Ultrahigh-Speed Analysis With LC-MS-MS
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Chris Gilles
Ultrahigh-speed liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy instruments can accelerate analysis times by at least tenfold compared to conventional LC-MS-MS systems. read more
Achieving Success in Chemical Manufacturing: How a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Ensures Flexibility in the Lab
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Colin Thurston
Chemical manufacturing companies today must be more adaptable than ever. This is especially true in the production of fine and specialty chemicals, where some manufacturers change over production ... read more
Achieving Precise and Accurate Sulfur Determination in Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesels, Biodiesels, and Jet Fuels Using Direct Injection Technology
Monday, February 20, 2012
Angela Seipel
Over the last few decades, there has been increasing regulatory pressure worldwide to reduce the maximum permissible levels of sulfur in fuels, in order to minimize environmental pollution and protect... read more
Achieving Consistency and Reproducibility in Cell-Based Research
Friday, December 05, 2008
Jeff Goldman
In recent years, advances in mammalian cell-based research have enabled many scientific and medical discoveries. read more
Accurate Determination of Amino Acids in High-Carbohydrate-Containing Samples
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Valoran P. Hanko Jeffrey S. Rohrer
In a high-sensitivity amino acid analysis (AAA) technique that does not require sample derivatization, both amino acids and carbohydrates are separated by high-performance anion-exchange ... read more