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Advances in Gas Chromatography Instrumentation at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
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 Mass Spectrometry at Pittcon® 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Technical Article
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
Micro Raman at Pittcon^® 2012
Monday, May 07, 2012
Technical Article
Barbara Foster
Micro Raman was big news at Pittcon® 2012. While the hardware has stabilized, there were intriguing new developments in the science and its applications. read more
Focus on Separation Science at Pittcon® 2012: Advances in Gas Chromatography
Monday, May 07, 2012
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
For gas chromatography (GC), the big news at Pittcon® 2012 was the absence of Agilent and PerkinElmer. This was a consequence of an overall downsizing caused by the “six-year effect” where the cycles ... read more
Pittcon® 2012 Roundup of Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry
Monday, May 07, 2012
Technical Article
Jeffrey M. Perkel
This past March, some 15,754 people from 90 countries descended on Orlando, Florida, for the annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon®). read more
Advances in Liquid Phase Separation at Pittcon® 2012
Monday, May 07, 2012
Technical Article
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
New Elemental Analysis Techniques for the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Application Note
Jeffrey M. Perkel
The four basic analytical techniques commonly used for elemental analysis are atomic absorption (AA), inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), ICP-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-... read more
Achieving Precise and Accurate Sulfur Determination in Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesels, Biodiesels, and Jet...
Monday, February 20, 2012
Technical Article
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
Food Safety Testing and New Technologies
Friday, February 03, 2012
Application Note
Mukta M. Shukla
Just as Alexander Fleming’s groundbreaking discoveries on penicillin ushered in a new era of antibacterial agents to extend human lifespans, it was the work of Louis Pasteur that helped introduce the ... read more
Increased Throughput in Method 8270 Analysis
Monday, January 01, 2007
Application Note
William D. Goodman Frank DeLorenzo
Method 8270 is a GC-MS method created by the U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste for the analysis of semivolatile organics by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. read more
Automated Chemical Ionization in GC-MS
Monday, January 01, 2007
Application Note
Chris Sandy Jean-Francois Garnier Bernhard Rothweiler Fred Feyerherm Sihem Ben Mahmoud Harry F. Prest
Gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection using chemical ionization (CI) has demonstrated great utility in a wide variety of application areas ranging from forensics to environmental to ... read more
Dielectrophoretic Force Microscopy
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Application Note
Al M. Hilton Brian P. Lynch Garth J. Simpson
Dielectrophoresis (DEP), the force exerted on a polarizable particle in a nonuniform electric field, has been used with great success in recent years to manipulate and separate cells and biomolecules. read more