Application Notes

Routine maintenance is critical in ICP-MS, and this article provides guidance on keeping the sample introduction clean. Read More

Concern about pesticide residues and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in food has led to the regulation of maximum contaminant levels, and highlighted the need for more sensitive and selective... Read More

Sample preparation is the most critical part of a chromatographic assay. Read More

The tenfold increase in speed for the analytics (GC, HPLC, and SFC [supercritical fluid chromatography], all with MS) over the last decade has shifted the choke point in many workflows from analytics ... Read More

A DNA synthesis platform addresses the need for smaller-scale oligo production without sacrificing quality, accuracy or turnaround time. Read More

Expanded bed adsorption (EBA) was introduced in 1999 with adsorbents that were used for pressure-driven packed beds. These had densities in the range of 1.1–1.5 g/mL, which was not much higher than ... Read More

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

Introduction of gas chromatography samples typically occurs through a heated inlet containing a glass liner. Read More

Selecting a centrifuge and rotor can sometimes feel like the easy part when faced with choosing the consumables in which to centrifuge samples. There are many suppliers of centrifuge tubes to choose ... Read More

Modern scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) offer vast improvements over early models in terms of electron optics, detector design and computing technology. Read More