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  • Thorough Risk Assessment Supports At-Scale Process Safety

    Wednesday, July 16, 2014
    Application Note
    Urs Groth
    It goes without saying that in any manufacturing environment no one sets out to design an unsafe process. However, it is not enough to ensure a process will be safe under normal operating conditions. read more

  • Laboratory Automation: 2013–2017

    Friday, November 23, 2012
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    Laboratory automation is changing the work flow in biochemical and chemical laboratories. read more

  • Analysis of Piperine in Peppers Using On-Line SFE-UHPLC With Photodiode Array Detection

    Tuesday, February 01, 2011
    Application Note
    Takayuki Yamaguchi Kazutoshi Kamezawa Keijin Iwaya Yasuyo Sato Toshihiko Miyaji Masao Bounoshita David J. Tognarelli Muneo Saito
    Ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) is a separation technique that utilizes columns packed with microparticles (<2 µm in diameter), as provided by the xtreme liquid chromatography (x-lc™) system (jasco corp., tokyo, japan) µm="" in="" diameter),="" as="" provided="" by="" the="" xtreme="" liquid="" chromatography="" (x-lc™)="" system="" (jasco="" corp.,="" tokyo,="">... read more

  • Determination of Mercury in Slag and Cement Using a Mercury Analyzer

    Friday, January 28, 2011
    Application Note
    Sang-Ho Nam Yu-Na Kim Jin-Su Na Keun-Hyeok Yang
    Mercury is one of the most toxic elements in the environment. Humans are exposed to mercury through the inhalation of mercury vapor, ingestion of drinking water, and consumption of fish. read more

  • The Double Life of Structured Fluids

    Sunday, August 01, 2010
    Application Note
    Neil Cunningham Bob McGregor
    The products we stir, pump, spread, pour, and spray are usually thought of as liquids. Surprisingly, however, it can be demonstrated that they live a quiet double life as liquids when observed,but ... read more

  • Use of UHPLC-MS to Determine Illicit Drugs

    Sunday, August 01, 2010
    Application Note
    Guifeng Jiang
    Illicit drugs are listed under five categories,namely, narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, and cannabis. These categories include drugs that are produced legally and prescribed by ... read more

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

    Sunday, August 01, 2010
    Application Note
    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

  • Time-of-Flight Terahertz Tomography

    Sunday, August 01, 2010
    Application Note
    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

  • Characterization of the Daguerreotype Using the Surface Metrology Instrumental Technique of Confocal...

    Sunday, August 01, 2010
    Technical Article
    Patrick Ravines
    Surfaces, the two-dimensional outer boundary between the three-dimensional object and its environment,have many attributes and are perceived as the complex interplay of three factors: surrounding ... read more

  • Evaluating the Presence and Impact of Emerging Contaminants in Laboratory Water

    Sunday, August 01, 2010
    Application Note
    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
    Application Note
    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

  • A Multifrequency Temperature-Modulated Technique For DSC

    Sunday, January 01, 2006
    Application Note
    Markus Schubnell Christoph Heitz Thomas Hütter Steven Sauerbrunn Juergen E.K. Schawe
    In conventional differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), a sample is subjected to a temperature program with a constant heating rate. As a result, the DSC instrument delivers an output signal, which, ... read more

  • A High-Sensitivity Sensor for DSC

    Friday, August 05, 2005
    Application Note
    Rudolf Riesen Blaine Weddle
    A dramatic increase in sensitivity at low signal noise without a significant loss in signal resolution has been achieved with the HSS7 high-sensitivity sensor. read more
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