Applied Maintenance and Troubleshooting for Gas Chromatography and Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry. This course has been approved by the Royal Society of Chemistry for purposes of Continuing Professional Development. This course looks at the parts of the GC and GC-MS system requiring maintenance. The frequency and how to identify when maintenance is required, are covered in detail. The course then looks at preparing for problems, how to identify problems and the troubleshooting process...

Chocolate...delicious for humans, challenging for analytical methods, perfect for demonstrating the benefits of high mass resolution PTR-TOFMS! The real-time, direct injection PTR technology combined with powerful TOF-MS enables rapid, highly selective and quantitative screening of food, flavor and fragrance samples. Recently, IONICON performed an extensive food and flavor study comparing their ultimate-resolution trace VOC analyzer PTR-TOF 10k to a common high-resolution PTR-TOFMS instrument...

Expanding possibilities for pharmaceutical sample analysis, Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the latest addition to the Cary 3500 UV-Vis Series with the release of the Agilent Cary 3500 Flexible UV-Vis System. This new solution is a double-beam spectrophotometer with advanced photometric performance for diverse sample-type measurements with minimal sample preparation...

Waters Corporation has unveiled its next generation Xevo TQ Absolute IVD mass spectrometer, expanding its family of MassTrak IVD LC-MS/MS Systems for clinical diagnostic applications. The powerful analytical performance of the Xevo TQ Absolute IVD mass spectrometer is up to five times more sensitive for quantifying clinical analytes than similar commercial instruments on the market...

Renishaw is pleased to introduce fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) functionality to its inVia™ confocal Raman microscope. In partnership with Becker & Hickl GmbH, the pioneers in time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC), the system combines both Raman and FLIM in a single instrument. This integration can overlay both FLIM and Raman images with pixel-to-pixel correlation, thus increasing understanding of samples across a range of applications...

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced that the recipient of the 2023 Darlene Solomon Award is Kathryn Wolhuter, Ph.D., a senior postdoctoral researcher studying coronary heart disease at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia. The award was presented at the iSLS11 - 11th International Singapore Lipid Symposium held March 21–23 at the National University of Singapore...

New 410 Flame Photometer Range will now consists of the Classic, Industrial and Scientific models. All three Models of 410 Flame Photometer come with a preloaded filter stick which houses a maximum of three element filters. The filter stick is easily removed and replaced within the chimney housing (no tools required) and as such it is a relatively simple operation to introduce alternative element specific filters...

IRsweep are excited to announce the release of the IRis-C, the latest addition to our range of dual-comb mid-infrared spectrometers. The IRis-C features the same advanced technology of quantum cascade laser frequency combs as our high-end IRis-F1, offering you the same quality results at a more cost-efficient price point. IRis-F1 customers can continue to enjoy its advanced features and performance....

Edinburgh Instruments is delighted to announce the release of its new benchtop FTIR Spectrometer, the IR5, designed and manufactured at their global headquarters in Scotland. The IR5 is the first Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer of the Edinburgh Instruments brand, renowned for its expertise in instrumentation for Raman, fluorescence, and UV-Vis absorption spectroscopies...

Uniqsis reports that demand for its Flow-UV inline UV-Visible spectrophotometer for biological, biotech, drug discovery and industrial applications grew to record levels during 2022. Compact in design, the Flow-UV from Uniqsis sets a benchmark for real time monitoring of continuous flow and batch applications. Unlike many UV-visible spectrophotometers the high-resolution Flow-UV CCD array detector does not require calibration or routine servicing...

Field-based non-dispersive infra-red spectroscopy instrument produces results that were previously only possible using lab-based techniques. A new scientific report by Concawe, which reviewed field-based and lab-based methods of analysing oil-contaminated soils, determined that the InfraCal 2 ATR-SP total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) analyser is an effective instrument for measuring oil contamination of soil and water...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, received R&D 100 Awards from R&D World Magazine for two of its most recently launched analytical instruments. The R&D 100 Awards competition honors the latest innovations in science and technology, identifying the top 100 revolutionary technologies of the past year...

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the deployment of the next generation of alarm resolution technology for checkpoints throughout London Heathrow airport, delivering advanced security and efficiency. The Insight200M from Agilent ensures increased safety on planes while improving passenger experience at airports. The ban on liquids in carry-on luggage was slowly lifted to allow baby food, medicinal items, and duty-free items, and there is a continuous shift...

ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes software in support of R&D, has announced the release of version 2022 software applications on the Spectrus® platform, and updates to Percepta® platform software. “Analytical data utilization ‘beyond just-in-time’ decision making grows every year,” said Andrew Anderson, Vice President of Innovation and Informatics Strategy, ACD/Labs...

The new instrument analyzes liquid, translucent samples for their optical spectrum, color, and water parameters. Or any of the three. Operators speed up their processes and improve the quality of the results using Easy VIS. They, therefore, save money, time, and space. The instrument takes over the measuring tasks of up to three instruments: a colorimeter, a spectrophotometer, and special measuring methods for water testing, such as titration....

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the release of its enhanced 8700 LDIR Chemical Imaging System, which has been further optimized for the analysis of microplastics in environmental samples. This newly improved package includes Clarity 1.5 software – a significant upgrade that advances the speed of analysis, enhances spectral acquisition, transformation, and library matching, and provides automated workflows for direct analysis of microplastics on a filter substrate....

The Chairmen and Organizers of the 51st International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2023) are delighted to announce the conference dates and details for the upcoming 2023 edition of the HPLC symposium series. Since its first edition in 1973, the HPLC symposium series has established itself as the world’s leading scientific conference on high-performance liquid phase separations and related techniques...

Researchers at the Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC) at Murdoch University have successfully detected and quantified newly discovered biomarkers of SARS-CoV-2 acute infections and of ‘Long COVID’. They used a benchtop Fourier Transform-nuclear magnetic resonance (FT-NMR) spectrometer with a permanent magnet, thereby lowering the barrier to clinical translation of this epidemiological and diagnostic research technology...

Shimadzu, a global thought leader in analytical instrumentation, is introducing the LCMS-9050 Q-TOF mass spectrometer. It features the fastest and most sensitive quadrupole technology with TOF architecture to date. Its main characteristics can be summed up in three words: Accuracy, Acceleration and Accommodation of customers’ needs. Users will experience trusted mass accuracy stability and increased availability and throughput on the system...