May 2014
Volume 46, Number 4
The May issue shines a spotlight on the innovative new products and technologies introduced at Pittcon® 2014. Included is a review on novel products for sample processing, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, and optical spectroscopy. Also featured is a guest editorial on the prestigious Pittcon Gold, Silver, and Bronze Editors’ Awards.
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Table of Contents
Marian Nardozzi
Pittcon®, the world’s largest annual conference
and exposition for laboratory science, is the premier venue for innovations, and the Pittcon Editors’ Awards are all about rewarding those types of ...
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Josh P. Roberts
In its most basic form, the UV-VIS spectrophotometer comprises a light source, a method for separating out the light into its spectrum, and a method to detect light once it has bounced off of a sample...
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Michael Collazo, Soheila Vaezeslami, Sarah Burl
Macromolecular X-ray crystallography is an important and powerful technique in drug discovery. Studying the specific interactions of a particular drug with its protein target at the atomic level can ...
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Katriona Scoffin
The petrochemicals industry, pharmaceuticals industry, food industry, and chemicals manufacturing industry are just some of the areas in which nitrogen analyzers find wide application. The type of ...
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Matt Wilkinson
Optical spectroscopy often seems to be somewhat overlooked at Pittcon®, with much of the attention focusing on hyphenated technologies such as GC/MS or ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (...
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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 ...
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Over the last 56 years, Wyatt Technology
Corp. (WTC), including the adaptation of innovations from its progenitor, Science Spectrum, has earned a
reputation for developing and marketing instruments
...
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Silke Holzmüller-Laue, Bernd Göde, Kerstin Thurow
Generalized life science automation (LSA) includes all application areas of laboratory automation, i.e., health care, pharmaceutical development, chemistry, and biology. The connection of all ...
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Brian Musselman
Sitting here watching March Madness reminded me of the new instrumentation presented at Pittcon® in Chicago. Not one, but two, mass spectrometer prod-
ucts were awarded a Pittcon Editors’ Award, ...
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Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Pittcon® is changing rapidly. After decades where separation science including GC/MS and LC/MS dominated the meeting, a report by Dr. Matt Wilkinson in this issue demonstrates that optical
...
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