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  • 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

  • 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

  • Person-Portable GC-MS for Rapid On-Site Environmental Screening of Contaminants in Drinking Water

    Tuesday, July 31, 2012
    Application Note
    Tiffany C. Wirth Jakob B. Later Joseph L. Oliphant Edgar D. Lee Douglas W. Later
    Trihalomethanes (THMs) are formed when chlorine and other disinfectants are used to clean drinking water. At certain concentrations they are considered an environmental pollutant and are carcinogenic.... read more

  • Focus on Separation Science at Pittcon® 2012: Advances in Gas Chromatography

    Monday, May 07, 2012
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    For gas chromatography (GC), the big news at Pittcon® 2012 was the absence of Agilent and PerkinElmer. This was a consequence of an overall downsizing caused by the “six-year effect” where the cycles ... read more

  • Optimizing Value With New Lab Technology

    Tuesday, January 10, 2012
    Application Note
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The upcoming year promises to be busy and exciting for early adopters of laboratory technology. read more

  • A Cell Culture CO2 Incubator Using Hydrogen Peroxide Sterilization

    Friday, January 01, 2010
    Technical Article
    Deepak Mistry Hiroki Busujima Matt Siebert
    The use of a hydrogen peroxide vapor (H2O2) atomizer in situ to decontaminate a cell culture CO2 incubator without the use of heat sterilization offers significant advantages in routine clinical and ... read more

  • Expanding the Limits of Closed- Vessel Microwave Sample Preparation

    Thursday, August 10, 2006
    Technical Article
    Kenneth J. Borowski Charles Schoenfeld
    Analytical chemists have long known that closed-vessel microwave sample preparation techniques are the most reliable way to achieve high-quality digestions—i.e., clear, precipitate-free solutions... read more

  • Multicapillary Columns for Chromatography

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Technical Article
    Yuri P. Belov Marina M. Ulyanova Vladimir N. Sidelnikov
    The principles and theory of high-speed capillary chromatography have been known since the 1960s. To realize the maximum speed capabilities, it is necessary to use capillaries with a diameter of ... read more

  • Rapid Testing of Toxic Chemicals

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Application Note
    Nathalie Boucher Lucie Lorrain Marie-Eve Rouette Elisabeth Perron Nancy Déziel Louis Tessier François Bellemare
    The measurement of chlorophyll fluorescent signals from photosynthetic enzyme complexes (PEC) has becomeone of the most powerful indicators for ecophysiologists. 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

  • LC-MS With Simultaneous Electrospray and Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Technical Article
    Wayne P. Duncan Patrick D. Perkins
    Today, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization (LC-ESI-MS) is increasingly being used as the technique of choice for high-throughput pharmaceutical analysis. read more
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