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Automated, Economical Sample Preparation: Bottle Liquid–Liquid Extraction
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
John R. Troost
The extraction of organics from water is fundamental in environmental, pharmaceutical, process, food, forensic, and other laboratories. Nearly all laboratories that perform organic analyses are ... read more
Capillary Rheometry: Analysis of Low-Viscosity Fluids, and Viscous Liquids and Melts at High Shear Rates
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Tien T. Dao Allan X. Ye Kaj Hedman Ali A. Shaito Nick Roye
Rheology is defined as the study of the flow and deformation of fluids. Based on the need to quickly and accurately set and control processing conditions, optimize product performance, and/or ... read more
Extracting Greater Value From Scientific Data: An Optimized Approach
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Frank Brown
Today’s pharmaceutical, chemicals, materials, and consumer packaged goods (CPG) organizations must deal with a number of competing challenges: From a business perspective, they face growing pressures ... read more
Design and Application of a Virtual Ion Meter Based on Graphical Programming Software
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Hu Meng Jiang-Yuan Li Yong-Huai Tang
The ion meter is one of the most widely used analytical instruments in scientific research and routine laboratory practice in the biomedical, chemical, and environmental fields. In general, the data ... read more
A Fast Method for Determination of Melamine in Liquid Milk and Milk Powder by HPLC With UV Detection
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Lang Li Ji Luo Qun Xu Jeff Rohrer Scott Lefferts
Melamine discovered in baby formula and products containing milk has led to one of the largest worldwide food recalls in history. Some manufacturers in China illegally added melamine, an ingredient ... read more
New Solutions for Surface Texture Analysis
Monday, November 01, 2010
Barbara Foster
Most microscopists are familiar with confocal microscopy from neuroscience or cell biology. However, very quietly and abruptly, confocal has jumped the fence into industry, becoming a major tool-of-... read more
Addressing New Challenges in the Field of Growth Promoters in Biological Samples
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Fabrice Monteau Jean-Philippe Antignac Gaud Pinel Paul Silcock Peter Hancock Bruno Le Bizec
The safety of our food supply can no longer be taken for granted. As the world changes and populations continue to grow, so will the responsibility of organizations to meet the demand for safe ... read more
Polymer Characterization Using Nanoscale Infrared Spectroscopy
Monday, November 01, 2010
Kevin Kjoller Craig Prater Roshan Shetty
Despite its widespread applications, infrared microspectroscopy has fundamental spatial resolution limits set by both the laws of optics and practical design constraints. read more
Breaking the Sample Preparation Bottleneck With a New Approach to Microwave Digestion
Monday, November 01, 2010
Tim Michel
Closed-vessel microwave digestion is widely recognized as the most effective technique for the digestion of samples for metals analysis by graphite furnace atomic absorption (GFAA), inductively ... read more
Characterizing Nanometer-Scale Materials Using a Low-Angle Backscattered Electron Detector
Monday, November 01, 2010
Craig S. Schwandt
Understanding the properties of new materials prior to fabrication can be challenging. Often, the structure of a material at very small scales is critical to its properties and performance. read more
Ensuring the Purity of Acetonitrile During Quality Control Testing
Monday, March 01, 2010
Steven F. Eaton
Acetonitrile is a critical solvent for a number of important technologies. Its low viscosity and low chemical reactivity make it a popular choice as a mobile phase for liquid chromatography. It also ... read more
Ultrafast Flow Liquid Chromatography of Proteins
Monday, March 01, 2010
Kert Ivie
Ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) has been applied successfully to separations of many small molecules, including peptides. Few studies have involved proteins, and these were narrowly ... read more
Capillary UHPLC Coupled with MRM-MS for Quantitative, High-Sensitivity Bioanalysis
Monday, March 01, 2010
Kerry Nugent Lori Ann Upton Yixin Zhu Chris Loran
Over the past 20 years, liquid chromatography-multiple reaction monitoring-mass spectrometry (LC-MRM-MS) has become the primary tool for the bioanalysis of drugs and their metabolites in physiological... read more
Implementing Natural Ventilation in the Offices of a Research Laboratory Building
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Chris Flint Chatto
The University of Washington (UW) is a leading public research and educational institution, with its largest of three campuses located in Seattle and adjacent to Lake Washington. read more
Routine Implementation of Very-High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography in Pharmaceutical Development
Monday, March 01, 2010
Qinggang Wang Brent Kleintop
High-pressure liquid chromatography is probably the most widely used analytical technique for characterizing drug substances and drug products in the pharmaceutical industry. It is widely employed ... read more
The Importance of Planning and Coordination in Laboratory Design
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Roger Hendrick
The proven marks of modern laboratory design are sharing of resources, flexible use of space,and the ability to adapt to changing needs. In constructing various laboratories throughout the years, ... read more
Transformation of a University Teaching Laboratory Through Innovative Solutions
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Steve McDaniel Michael Kihn
This article describes the improvements made to a 4500-square-foot chemistry teaching laboratory within the University of Pennsylvania’s (Philadelphia) Chemistry ’58 building. The design was led by ... read more
The Benefits of Renovated Laboratories
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Melody Spradlin
In an age of scarce financial resources and shortened deadlines, many laboratory-based organizations find that repurposing existing buildings is a less costly and faster way to bring facilities on-... read more
Real-Time Detection of Central Nervous System Tissues on Bovine Carcasses Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Ramkrishna Adhikary Prasun Mukherjee Holger Schönenbrücher Thomas A. Casey Mark A. Rasmussen Jacob W. Petrich
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal, neurodegenerative transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in cattle that is thought to be the cause of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)... read more
Mercury and Arsenic Speciation Analysis by IC-ICP-MS
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Laura Reyes H.M. Skip Kingston Andrea Wille Jürgen Knöll Alfred Steinbach
Ion chromatography (IC) with conductivity detection has been used successfully to determine anionic and cationic substances as well as polar compounds such as amines and organic acids. However, in ... read more

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Automated, Economical Sample Preparation: Bottle Liquid–Liquid Extraction

Capillary Rheometry: Analysis of Low-Viscosity Fluids, and Viscous Liquids and Melts at High Shear Rates

Extracting Greater Value From Scientific Data: An Optimized Approach

Design and Application of a Virtual Ion Meter Based on Graphical Programming Software

A Fast Method for Determination of Melamine in Liquid Milk and Milk Powder by HPLC With UV Detection

New Solutions for Surface Texture Analysis

Addressing New Challenges in the Field of Growth Promoters in Biological Samples

Polymer Characterization Using Nanoscale Infrared Spectroscopy

Breaking the Sample Preparation Bottleneck With a New Approach to Microwave Digestion

Characterizing Nanometer-Scale Materials Using a Low-Angle Backscattered Electron Detector

Ensuring the Purity of Acetonitrile During Quality Control Testing

Ultrafast Flow Liquid Chromatography of Proteins

Capillary UHPLC Coupled with MRM-MS for Quantitative, High-Sensitivity Bioanalysis

Implementing Natural Ventilation in the Offices of a Research Laboratory Building

Routine Implementation of Very-High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography in Pharmaceutical Development

The Importance of Planning and Coordination in Laboratory Design

Transformation of a University Teaching Laboratory Through Innovative Solutions

The Benefits of Renovated Laboratories

Real-Time Detection of Central Nervous System Tissues on Bovine Carcasses Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Mercury and Arsenic Speciation Analysis by IC-ICP-MS

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Overcoming Common Challenges in Sample Viability for Single-Cell Research