September 2014
Volume 46, Number 7
Coverage of HPLC 2014 continues in part 2 of this meeting review, which discusses columns and packings, applications, solid-phase extraction, and thin layer chromatography, among other topics. An article on portable visible absorption spectrometry describes a technology that allows real-time calibration of fluorescence and absorption spectrometers.
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Table of Contents
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The format of this report on new developments in HPLC is significantly different than the recent past, since the focus is on new advances featured at both Pittcon® 2014 and HPLC 2014. These meetings ...
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Thursday, September 04, 2014
Emilia Raszkiewicz
Welcome to the September issue. Whether we are returning to work after a vacation, departing
on a vacation, outlining our personal plans, or transitioning into the new phase of an academic
semester,...
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Friday, September 05, 2014
Larry Gallagher
In life science laboratories and biotech firms,
safety and environmental issues can be presented
by the gases and cryogens utilized in the processes and controls. From simple oxygen deficiency that ...
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Thursday, September 04, 2014
Xiuhua Zheng, Shiwei Yang, Zhongli Lei
A novel inorganic/organic hybrid, highly temperature-resistant fluid loss agent had previously been
reported by the Drilling Fluid Laboratory of China University of Geosciences. However, Ca-MMT (...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Elaine F. Schumacher
Engineered materials abound in products that we use every day. They can range from a bulk material like the glass in a window to a dispersion of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in a sunscreen ...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2014
George Karlin-Neumann
Cancer research is as necessary as ever, especially if we are to fulfill the promise of personalized (or “precision”) medicine based on specific cancer therapies directed to known molecular targets.
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Friday, September 05, 2014
Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
The 3rd annual Clinical Genome Conference (CGC), held June 10–12 in San Francisco, CA, contrasted today’s limited utilization of genomic testing for disease with its expected potential. Speakers ...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Lina Genovesi
An AAS, or atomic absorption spectrometer, is an important tool for measuring the concentration of atoms contained in a sample in the ppb range. The technique is based on the ability of the atoms to ...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Alexander Scheeline
Think of a visible absorption spectrometer or a visible fluorimeter. What do you see? A scanned diffraction grating and photomultiplier?
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Josh P. Roberts
Many labs working on methods development rely on the diode array detector (DAD) because it allows the user to look at all wavelengths simultaneously. Improved spectral resolution is a feature of ...
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