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Enterprise Thinking: Driving Open Standards Adoption in the Laboratory
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Trish Meek Séamus Mac Conaonaigh
With the continued rise in the cost of drug research and development, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and research companies are rethinking the way they do business. Read More
Determination of Free Formaldehyde in Cosmetic Preservatives and Surfactants by HPLC With Postcolumn Derivatization
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Henry Joshua Elizabeth Hillebrand
Formaldehyde or formaldehyde-releasing preservatives are frequently used in cosmetic preparations such as shampoos and skin-care products for the prevention of microbial and fungal growth. Many ... Read More
Improving FTIR Operation With a Contaminant Analysis Program
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
John Monti
Spectrum search (library search) is a procedure often used in contaminant analysis. It consists of using the search function included in Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) software or specialized ... Read More
Effective Forensic Sample Tracking and Handling
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Tal Murthy Brian Hewson
With implications for the success of a legal case, forensic samples must be stored under optimal conditions to avoid DNA deterioration. Failure to maintain proper storage conditions can result in ... Read More
Benefits of an Integrated Laboratory (iLAB)
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Robert Pavlis
An iLAB, or integrated laboratory, is a new type of laboratory informatics system—a total laboratory automation system. The value of an iLAB can best be appreciated by exploring four key problems with... Read More
Challenging Chromatographic Peak Integration
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Shaun Quinn
Integration is a fundamental task that all chromatographers perform on a daily basis. Due to faster chromatography, which is creating more data every day, the amount of time spent on integration is ... Read More
Identifying Trace Compounds in Complex Mixtures With MS Data-Processing Software
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Gareth M. Roberts
With the ultimate aim of protecting workers, consumers, and the environment, industry regulations are continually expanding with respect to monitoring the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by ... Read More
Time-of-Flight Terahertz Tomography
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Kodo Kawase Koji Suizu Takayuki Shibuya
Terahertz sensing and imaging technology has been investigated in various fields, including security,medicine, biochemical applications, and art.1–4 One of the most powerful tools for terahertz ... Read More
Supporting Pharmaceutical Cleaning Validation With TOC and UV-VIS Spectrophotometric Analysis
Friday, October 01, 2010
Richard H. Clifford
Quality control and product safety are paramount in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products. Therefore, it is essential that substances other than those approved for a product are not included with... Read More
A Novel Method for Measuring Zeta Potential of High-Concentration, Low-Volume Protein Samples
Friday, October 01, 2010
Fraser McNeil-Watson Michael Kaszuba
Understanding and controlling the characteristics of proteins in solution is fundamental to predicting their aggregation behavior and determining appropriate conditions for storage, crystallization, ... Read More
Applications of Vibrational Circular Dichroism for Determining Absolute Configuration in Early Drug Discovery
Friday, October 01, 2010
Feng Qiu Yingru Zhang Janet Caceres-Cortes Michael D. Reily
Chirality is an intrinsic property of living matter, and many biological molecules exhibit a preference for one enantiomer over another. As such, chirality has been introduced into more than half of ... Read More
Evaluating the Presence and Impact of Emerging Contaminants in Laboratory Water
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Estelle Riché Maricar Tarun
At the annual American Chemical Society spring meeting in 2010, researchers described how active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) contained within medications that are applied topically to the skin ... Read More
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) for Energy-Related Device Characterization
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Richard White John Wolstenholme
Recent developments in spectrometer design have made the unique capabilities of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) accessible to scientists and engineers working on the latest devices for energy ... Read More
ICP Spectrometry Coupled With a Separate Sampling and Excitation Accessory for Rapid Analysis of Impurities in Silver
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
George Buchbinder Nikolai Verblyudov Andrew Clavering
Silver is one of the oldest metals known to humanity and is still very important in minting, jewelry, and industry. Silver can be obtained from pure deposits and ores and, like other precious metals, ... Read More
Automating Sample Preparation in the Metals Laboratory
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Joe Boyd
Preparing samples for analysis is an extremely time-consuming task. In fact, sample preparation steps can easily take up more time in the laboratory than the actual analysis. With autosamplers on ... Read More
Portable IR Analyzers: The Ideal Measurement Solution for Biofuels Blend Quality and Wastewater Testing
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Sandra Rintoul
Two challenges facing the biofuels industry involve compliance with blend quality standards and wastewater regulations. According to a study done by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the chief... 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
Sediment Standard Reference Materials
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Michele Schantz Rolf Zeisler
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD) issued a new series of Standard Reference Materials® (SRMs) targeting the ever-increasing list of potentially toxic ... Read More
A Novel Approach to Particle Size Measurement in the Single-Nanometer Range
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Yanyin Yang Robert H. Clifford Gilbert Vial Haruo Shimaoka
Nanotechnology is pervasive, as evidenced by the abundance of information found in the latest scientific journals. What is nanotechnology? According to the National Nanotechnology Initiative, “a ... Read More
A Nondestructive Technique for the Detection of Metallic Impurities in Alloys
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
John R. Dannecker Neil D. Fichtelberg Scott A. Knowles
Examples of welds contaminated with small quantities of incorrect weld filler metal were recently discovered in fabricated assemblies. The presence of such impurities, which are not detectable using ... Read More

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Enterprise Thinking: Driving Open Standards Adoption in the Laboratory

Determination of Free Formaldehyde in Cosmetic Preservatives and Surfactants by HPLC With Postcolumn Derivatization

Improving FTIR Operation With a Contaminant Analysis Program

Effective Forensic Sample Tracking and Handling

Benefits of an Integrated Laboratory (iLAB)

Challenging Chromatographic Peak Integration

Identifying Trace Compounds in Complex Mixtures With MS Data-Processing Software

Time-of-Flight Terahertz Tomography

Supporting Pharmaceutical Cleaning Validation With TOC and UV-VIS Spectrophotometric Analysis

A Novel Method for Measuring Zeta Potential of High-Concentration, Low-Volume Protein Samples

Applications of Vibrational Circular Dichroism for Determining Absolute Configuration in Early Drug Discovery

Evaluating the Presence and Impact of Emerging Contaminants in Laboratory Water

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) for Energy-Related Device Characterization

ICP Spectrometry Coupled With a Separate Sampling and Excitation Accessory for Rapid Analysis of Impurities in Silver

Automating Sample Preparation in the Metals Laboratory

Portable IR Analyzers: The Ideal Measurement Solution for Biofuels Blend Quality and Wastewater Testing

Use of Rotational Vane Rheometry to Solve Practical Problems

Sediment Standard Reference Materials

A Novel Approach to Particle Size Measurement in the Single-Nanometer Range

A Nondestructive Technique for the Detection of Metallic Impurities in Alloys

Product Guide

Micromachined HPLC Columns Can Revolutionize Proteomics Workflows

Buyer's Guide: GC-MS for Monitoring Environmental Pollutants

Refocusing the Lens of Cancer Screening

Study: NGS Should Be Go-to Technology on Day Zero of the Next Pandemic

Overcoming Common Challenges in Sample Viability for Single-Cell Research