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  • Pittcon 2013®: Developments in Liquid Chromatography

    Monday, May 13, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The first commercial liquid chromatograph was probably an amino acid analyzer. These ion exchange chromatographs were so specialized that they had almost no impact on chemical analysis outside of ... read more

  • 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

  • What’s New in Optical Spectroscopy at Pittcon® 2013?

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Mark Fisher
    Soon after the first spectrophotometer was built, the challenge of improving it began. How could we make spectrophotometers better? Could we make them smaller, faster, or perhaps improve the ... 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

  • Exhibition of Chromatography Columns at Pittcon® 2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The technology and market for liquid chromatography columns continue to mature, with applications-specific columns on the rise. The chromatography columns target specific assays in the clinical ... read more

  • Awarding Innovation: The Pittcon® 2013 Editors’ Awards

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Marian Nardozzi
    Pittcon® offers many different award ceremonies for outstanding scientific achievement to members of the scientific community; however, there is only one award for innovations in instrumentation. The... read more

  • Sample Prep for LC, GC, and SFC at Pittcon® 2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    At Pittcon® 2013, sample prep stood out as a major focus, perhaps because of the few advances in chromatography instrumentation. In addition, some sample preparation is spilling over into other ... read more

  • Product Intelligence: High-Purity Gases on Demand: A Laboratory Gas Generators Buyers' Guide

    Thursday, May 24, 2012
    Technical Article
    T. Keith Brock
    Laboratory gas generators are a safer, more convenient, and more economical means of generating gases in the laboratory, and as such are a good alternative to cylinder-based gas sourcing. Because of ... 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

  • Generating Nitrogen for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

    Thursday, September 01, 2011
    Application Note
    Peter Froehlich Pat Kriwoy
    Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an extremely important tool in the elucidation of molecular structure and is commonly used to obtain information about the interaction between ... read more

  • Is Bottled Nitrogen a Greenhouse Gas?

    Saturday, March 01, 2008
    Application Note
    Peter Froehlich Rich Cardarople
    The level of greenhouse gases such as CO2 is believed by scientists to have a dramatic, unfavorable impact on worldwide climate change. read more

  • Nitrogen Generation in an Environmental Testing Laboratory

    Thursday, September 07, 2006
    Application Note
    Phillip Allison
    Belmont Labs, located in Englewood, OH, is an environmental testing facility offering analytical services to clients in industry, civil/environmental engineering, and state and local governments. read more
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