April 2014
Volume 46, Number 3
This issue features an article describing advances in Raman spectroscopy that have had a significant influence on the scale to which carbon nanomaterials can be characterized. Also featured is an article that presents an effective alternative to conventional standardized extraction—the microwave-assisted chloride extraction method.
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Table of Contents
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Quantitative analysis of subvisible particles is an important unsolved problem, as discussed in the Particle Analysis track of PepTalk 2014, held January 12–17 at the Renaissance Hotel and
Palm ...
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Barbara Foster
Biologists are increasingly turning to fluorescence as their contrast method of choice. In addition to finding application in materials science, medicine, pharma, and semiconductors, fluorescence is ...
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Gerald Brady, Robert Jacobberger, Susmit Singha Roy, Mark Wall, Michael Arnold
In recent years, carbon nanomaterials have created their own niche in materials science due to their exceptional electronic, thermal, mechanical, optical, and magnetic properties, creating potential
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Carola Schade
Quality control (QC) is becoming increasingly important in nucleic acid-based testing. As detection technologies become more and more sensitive, final results are influenced not only by biological ...
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Rahmat Ullah, Kannan Srinivasan, Chris Pohl, Pranathi Perati
The moisture absorbing polymer consumable
described in this article is designed to remove moisture from wet samples inline during extraction as well as from the post-extraction solvent extract.
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Curtis Marcott, Michael Lo, Qichi Hu, Eoghan Dillon, Kevin Kjoller, Craig B. Prater
The field of polymer composites is a rapidly developing area of study in materials science. The addition of a variety of new component materials, such as carbon fibers, clay, carbon nanotubes, ...
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Reynhardt Klopper
Accurate salt content determination in petrochemical products such as crude oil and bitumen is of utmost importance to petrochemical companies. The presence of salt (present as
sodium chloride) ...
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Jeff Layne, Simon Lomas, Allen Misa
With the ongoing globalization of the world’s food supply, the presence of potential contaminants in food is an ever-important and increasing global safety concern. Developing accurate and reliable ...
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Maria Stone
Max D. Peters started the company back in 1971. He was an avionics engineer at Honeywell and he worked on satellites, aircraft, and other projects involving HEPA [high efficiency particle air] ...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Josh P. Roberts
Gas chromatography (GC) is a mature technology that has been in use since the 1950s to separate compounds and identify sample components. This article provides an overview of GC systems, detailing ...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Craig S. Schwandt
Materials in the form of particulate or engineered objects are relatively easy to characterize in terms of their composition, shape, size, and size distribution, provided they are larger than
1 µm in...
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