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Sample Processing at Pittcon® 2014
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Application Note
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The tenfold increase in speed for the analytics (GC, HPLC, and SFC [supercritical fluid chromatography], all with MS) over the last decade has shifted the choke point in many workflows from analytics ... read more
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
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
New Instrumentation and Applications at HPLC 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
Technical Article
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
A marketplace is usually dynamic, with a cross-current of disparate interests meeting to find mutual satisfaction. read more
New Products at Pittcon® 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Application Note
Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
The following includes some of the latest advances in laboratory instrumentation debuting at Pittcon® 2011. read more
Image-Based Cell Analysis in Microplates
Friday, January 23, 2009
Application Note
Valerie Vincent
Robert Hooke, a pioneer of microscope illumination techniques, looked through his compound microscope in 1665 and made the first image-based analysis of cells. read more
Miniaturized FTIR for Maximized Productivity
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Application Note
Ken Fredeen John S. Seelenbinder Mark L. Norman
In today’s fast-paced business environment, many companies are under pressure to improve their productivity. This is especially true in the pharmaceutical industry, where reducing time-to-market ... read more