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  • Focus Sharpens on Miniature Optical Spectrometers at Pittcon®

    Tuesday, May 06, 2014
    Application Note
    Matt Wilkinson
    Optical spectroscopy often seems to be somewhat overlooked at Pittcon®, with much of the attention focusing on hyphenated technologies such as GC/MS or ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (... read more

  • Integrating Microscopy Into the Analytical Scheme: A Pittcon® 2014 Microscopy Review

    Monday, February 24, 2014
    Technical Article
    Barbara Foster
    Microscopy is often overlooked at Pittcon®, yet of the 12,000+ scientists who attend, approximately 30% use microscopy in some form (according to ongoing research from The Microscopy & Imaging Place, ... read more

  • Rapid Characterization of Large Areas of Graphene Using Raman Spectroscopy

    Thursday, August 29, 2013
    Application Note
    Tim Batten
    Raman spectroscopy probes the vibrations (phonons) in a material. These phonons are characteristic of a given material and allow its chemical and structural properties to be investigated. read more

  • Microscopy + Spectroscopy: Pittcon® 2013 Celebrates the Power of Two

    Thursday, March 07, 2013
    Technical Article
    Barbara Foster
    The year 2013 celebrates a new benchmark for imaging at Pittcon®. Historically, Pittcon has not been considered an imaging meeting, despite the fact that a review of Pittcon 2012 statistics revealed ... 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

  • Calorimetry: Getting the Winning Combination

    Wednesday, July 18, 2007
    Technical Article
    Ed Sullivan
    Ultrasensitive calorimetric instruments for measuring very small heats of reaction at constant temperature (isothermal titration calorimetry [ITC]) and small heat effects induced by temperature (... 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

  • Stability of Salicylic Acid and Magnesium Stearate by DSC

    Saturday, April 01, 2006
    Application Note
    Steven Sauerbrunn Lloyd MacPherson
    The first step in developing effective pharmaceutical formulations is the discovery of the active agent. 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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