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Vaccine Storage: Keeping Vaccines Safe When They Are In Highest Demand
Friday, January 04, 2013
Alex Esmon
Flu season is upon us and laboratories are doing their part to make sure vaccines are prepared and ready for distribution. One of the biggest problems faced by laboratories and clinics during flu ... Read More
Utilizing Supported Liquid Extraction in a Novel Format to Improve Productivity in the Analytical Laboratory
Friday, February 01, 2008
Matthew Cleeve
Liquid–liquid extraction (LLE) is a commonly used sample preparation technique for the isolation of drugs from biological fluids, such as plasma, prior to analysis by LC-MS-MS. Read More
Utilization of a TOC Analyzer for Low-Level Sample Analysis
Friday, January 23, 2009
Stephen C. Lawson
In a variety of industrial and environmental applications, the measurement of total organic carbon in water is an important analytical parameter in evaluating water quality. The Fusion analyzer and ... Read More
Using XPS and a Multi-Mode Ion Source to Understand Advanced Layered Materials
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Tim Nunney
Used in a wide range of products and devices, complex, multi-layered materials have traditionally been based around metallic or oxide layers. Read More
Using Raman Spectroscopy for Gemstone Analysis
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
Frank J. Yang Gerard Pereira Liang Don Chen
Raman spectroscopy is a nondestructive, extremely fast and low-cost option for gemstone analysis. Read More
Using Micro-XRF to Quantify Thickness and Composition of Thin-Film Solar Cells
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Andrew Lee
Thin-film solar cells (TFSCs) have developed into a highly efficient source of energy in solar cell technology, due to the reduction in semiconductor material required compared to traditional solar ... Read More
Using Freshly Delivered Ultrapure Water With Low TOC Improves Chromatographic Performance
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Stéphane Mabic Estelle Riche Cecilia Devaux
Analytical instruments have become increasingly sensitive, requiring a higher level of reagent and solvent quality, including water. Read More
Using Dynamic Light Scattering to Improve Protein Solution Behavior for Crystallization
Friday, June 01, 2007
Allan Matte Miroslaw Cygler
Improving protein solution behavior is critical in the field of structural biology since it impacts protein crystallization and the ability to determine protein structures by solution nuclear ... Read More
Using Classifications With Mass Spectral Filters to Enhance Results Obtained From GC×GC-TOFMS Analysis
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Tincuta Veriotti Don Hilton
Complex sample mixtures have always been a challenge for the analytical chemist. Read More
Using Benchtop NMR as a QA Solution in Food and Agriculture
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Juergen Schober Jim Vecchio John Paul Cerroti
The measurement of parameters such as oil, fat, and moisture content is important to help define the nutritional value and product quality for many foodstuffs and agriculture products. Read More
Using Advanced Data-Management Solutions to Ensure Food Safety
Monday, May 08, 2017
Jeff Tishler Kevin Arnold
Accurate recording of research data and the ability to quickly search historical data and track the genealogy of products result in products being developed more rapidly and consistently while ... Read More
Using Advanced Airflow Controls to Ensure Safe Air in the Laboratory
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Dave Rausch
While thousands of laboratories around the world continue to use traditional airflow controls, for enhanced safety and energy savings and reduced valve maintenance, venturi valves offer a higher-... Read More
Using a Purge-and-Trap Concentrator for Newly Proposed U.S. EPA Method 524.3
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Teri Dattilio
Purge-and-trap (P&T) concentration along with GC analysis is a widely used method for the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This methodology was developed to achieve the high sensitivity... Read More
$Use of X-ray Diffraction Analysis to Determine the Orientation of Single-Crystal Materials$
Use of X-ray Diffraction Analysis to Determine the Orientation of Single-Crystal Materials
Friday, April 08, 2011
Ronald Kappler Dave Lydon Ted Turnquist
Single crystals exhibit different properties, depending on the material and their orientation. Read More
Use of Weighted Least Squares and Confidence Band Calibration Statistics to Find Reliable Instrument Detection Limits for Trace Organic Chemical Analysis
Friday, September 11, 2015
Paul R. Loconto
Instrument detection limits (IDLs or xD) obtained from applying either ordinary least squares/confidence band calibration statistics (OLS/CBCS) or weighted least squares/confidence band calibration ... Read More
Use of UHPLC-MS to Determine Illicit Drugs
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Guifeng Jiang
Illicit drugs are listed under five categories,namely, narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, and cannabis. These categories include drugs that are produced legally and prescribed by ... Read More
Use of SEC–MALS–dRI–UV for Copolymer Characterization
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Conventional techniques used to characterize polymers, such as NMR and size-exclusion chromatography/differential refractive index detection, are often labor intensive, complex to perform, and high in... Read More
Use of Rotational Vane Rheometry to Solve Practical Problems
Saturday, August 01, 2009
David J. Moonay
Rheology is the study of the deformation of matter. A common definition is that rheology is the study of flow. Viscometry, in particular, is the measurement of viscosity or the resistance to flow. ... Read More
Use of Odor Detection Software to Match GC-MS Library Search Results and Odor-Active Compounds
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Philippe Mottay Robert Stoop Peter Picher Urs Hofstetter
Because GC and GC-MS are not always sufficient for olfactory analysis, chemists turn to gas chromatography– olfactometry (GC-O) for the detection of low-level odor-active compounds. Though powerful... Read More
Use of New Scanning Technology to Elucidate Ion Channel Mobility
Friday, April 01, 2005
Angela Goodacre Kristen M.S. O’Connell Michael M. Tamkun
Fluorescent chromophores fused to specific proteins have greatly increased our ability to image dynamic events within the living cell. Read More