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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

  • How Solid-Phase Extraction Affects Challenges in Bioanalysis

    Wednesday, February 05, 2014
    Application Note
    Mike Oliver Tim Liddicoat Ken Meadows
    Modern bioanalytical laboratories are tasked with providing high-quality analytical results from complex biological samples in a high-throughput environment. These needs have to be balanced with the ... read more

  • Product Intelligence: Solid Phase Extraction Systems

    Monday, February 25, 2013
    Technical Article
    Solid phase extraction, or SPE, is used to isolate pollutants in water and pesticides in food, isolate drugs in blood and tissue samples, and separate proteins from a mixture, among other applications... read more

  • Optimizing HPLC Sample Preparation

    Monday, February 06, 2012
    Technical Article
    Caitlin Smith
    Sample preparation is an important component for analysis in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)/ultra high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC). This article outlines commonly used ... 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

  • 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
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