Acclaim Trinity Q1 Column Designed to Eliminate Need for Ion Pairing Reagents, Exotic Mobile Phases
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific Acclaim Trinity Q1 HPLC column, designed to facilitate high-resolution and high-throughput trace analysis of the herbicides diquat and paraquat in plants by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometery (LC-MS)...
Read MoreCheminert C52 Integrated HPLC InjectorOct 12, 2012
VICI Valco’s new Cheminert C52 Series Injector presents our first integrated motor/valve assembly designed specifically to be built into an OEM system
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announces a joint marketing initiative with METTLER TOLEDO for combined Titration/Ion Chromatography (IC) system designed to provide a fast, accurate and integrated solution for fully-automated water analysis for laboratories testing the quality of drinking, surface or ground water
The new Titration/IC system features a single software package that integrates a METTLER TOLEDO Excellence titrator with liquid handler and two IC systems into a system that generates unified reports. Single point instrument control and data reporting reduces operating complexity, which can reduce costs compared to operating the workflow as separate analytical systems. Samples are handled only once and results are reported automatically in a single report. IC analysis is performed simultaneously with titration for a completed analysis in as quickly as 20 minutes...
Read MorePhenomenex Introduces 5-micron Kinetex Core-Shell MediaOct 5, 2012
Larger Particle Size Delivers Improved Performance for HPLC and Preparative LC
Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the addition of a 5-micron particle to its Kinetex core-shell product line. As the largest diameter particle in the family, Kinetex 5-micron core-shell columns deliver better performance than 3- or 5-micron fully porous offerings, with no increase in backpressure. In fact, the new 5-micron media provides 90 percent higher average efficiencies compared to the same size fully porous columns and little to no method development is required to achieve improved performance on standard HPLC systems.
Read MoreShimadzu launches new GCMS-TQ8030 ultra fast triple quadrupole GCMS for high-end applicationsOct 4, 2012
Shimadzu has launched the new GCMS-TQ8030 ultra fast triple quadrupole gas chromatograph mass spectrometer, extending the company’s UFMS (Ultra Fast Mass Spectrometry) product line that is already known for its high sensitivity, high data quality and rapid cycle times
This next step forward in Shimadzu’s GCMS history delivers a system capable of handling the fast GCMS and Comprehensive GCMS applications that are more usually the preserve of expensive Time of Flight analysers. Compared with existing triple quadrupole GCMS systems, the GCMS-TQ8030 provides significant increases in scanning speed (20,000 amu/sec) and MRM (Multiple Reaction Monitoring) speed (600/sec) without sacrificing any sensitivity... Read MoreWaters Selects Metabolomics Laboratory at University of North Texas for Center of Innovation Program HonorsOct 4, 2012
New Laboratory Directed by Prof. Vladimir Shulaev Recognized for Metabolomics and Metabolic Signaling Pathway Research and Teaching
At a ceremony officiated by University of North Texas (UNT) Provost Warren Burggren, Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) welcomed UNT’s Metabolomics and Metabolic Signaling Pathway Research Laboratory into the Waters Centers of Innovation Program. The laboratory directed by Professor Vladimir Shulaev is known worldwide for research in the field of metabolomics, the study of all cellular metabolites produced by living organisms. His laboratory is part of UNT's Plant Signaling Cluster, a team of researchers who collaborate to improve the understanding of cellular communication in plants to find solutions related to energy, agriculture, nutrition and medicine...
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific Launches New Chemical and Reagents Selection HandbookOct 4, 2012
New Easy-to-Use Handbook Provides One-Stop Access to Comprehensive Range of Reagents and Solvents
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of its new Fisher Chemical and Fisher BioReagents Laboratory Reagents Handbook, an essential, easy-to-use reference guide for one-stop access to its comprehensive laboratory reagent ranges. The new Fisher Chemical and Fisher BioReagents Laboratory Reagents Handbook features 250 new products, including an extended range of OptimaTM liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) solvents and high-purity acids for trace elemental analysis, microbiology media and modifying enzymes...
Read MoreCost, quality and availability, three reasons to buy Oct 4, 2012
Full range of Deuterium / UV lamps available to order online
Stratlab has just published its definitive list of •red® (dot-red) branded deuterium (D2) lamps for UV, UV/Vis and HPLC detectors on its webshop. Dozens of manufacturers of UV spectrophotometers / HPLC UV detectors are supported, including ABI, Agilent / HP, Beckman, Cecil, Gibson, Hitachi, Jasco, Perkin Elmer, Thermo, Varian and Waters. For hundreds of instrument models. All lamps are guaranteed for a specified number of hours...
Read MoreBioDrop hits the USAOct 1, 2012
Fresh thinking for micro-volume measurement. Launch of new cuvette and UV/Vis spectrophotometers for life science laboratories
BioDrop Ltd has launched a family of innovative micro-volume spectroscopy solutions in the US market, with the introduction of BioDrop CUVETTE and BioDrop UV/Vis spectrophotometers. BioDrop UV/Vis spectrophotometers are available in a range of configurations to suit the applications of every scientist. BioDrop µLite offers a unique in-built sampling port for quick and accurate measurements down to 0.5 µL sample volume...
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has announced the release of a new catalogue featuring the company’s extensive range of accessories, spares and consumables for thermal desorption
With a comprehensive index and colour-coded sections for quick reference, the new catalogue includes a wealth of advice on thermal desorption, making it a valuable technical resource for the analyst. With over 500 individual items, the catalogue highlights products across the entire portfolio, from sorbent tubes and canisters to instrument spares and software... Read MoreBruker Launches High-Performance LC Triple Quadrupole Mass SpectrometersSep 28, 2012
At the 2012 Japan Analytical Scientific Instruments Show (JASIS), Bruker launches two game-changing LC-triple quadrupole (LC-TQ) mass spectrometers, the high-performance EVOQ Qube™ and the ultra-high sensitivity EVOQ Elite, which are setting new standards for analytical performance and quantitative robustness
As with Bruker’s very successful SCION GC-TQ platform, introduced in 2011, the EVOQ series is targeted at LC-TQ performance leadership and delivers major advances in robustness, ease of method developments and productivity. The EVOQ LC-TQ systems introduced today incorporate Bruker’s new Advance™ Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) systems. In addition, the EVOQ platform features several major innovations...
Read MoreMelbourn Scientific rises above Helium ShortageSep 27, 2012
Prof of Sustainable Chemistry warns pharmaceutical industry of implications
“Everytime you see a child with a helium balloon, imagine somebody not being able to have an MRI scan that they desperately needed,” says Tom Welton, Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at Imperial College. As the professor warns that the helium shortage may soon impact the pharmaceutical industry, contract research organisation Melbourn Scientific, based in Melbourn Herts, is already responding...
Read MoreWorldwide Glass Resources expands series of high recovery vials for your critical sample handlingSep 26, 2012
NEW HIGH RECOVERY VIALS – You can choose from our standard high recovery vial sizes and volumes or allow us to design and engineer a vial for your specific requirements and automation systems
NEW Standard High Recovery vial sizes for compound libraries
12x32 mm clear vial, 11mm crimp finish, tapered bottom
12x32 mm clear vial, 11mm snap finish, tapered bottom
12x32 mm clear vial, 9mm Screw Thread, tapered bottom
12x32 mm clear vial, 10-425mm Screw Thread, tapered bottom
Built-in shock absorbers and a conical design assure improved precision and reliable performance for automated sample handling systems
J.G. Finneran Associates designed Limited Volume Inserts with Bottom and Top Springs to ensure that autosamplers extract even the smallest sample volumes every time, without damaging injection needles or breaking sample containers. The inserts are preassembled with polymer bottom springs or the patented Top Spring™, which act as shock absorbers to protect sample needles from bottoming out during sample extraction. The precision internal point design permits maximum sample withdrawal
Read MoreEconomic Approach to Protein Precipitation Sample PreparationSep 24, 2012
The Combipack™ is Porvair Sciences economic response to the growing use of protein precipitation separation techniques in chromatography labs
Comprising four Porvair p3 protein precipitation plates and four 1ml deep well collection plates (colour coded in red or blue polypropylene) the Combipack provides all the elements you require to undertake protein precipitation separations at a very affordable price...
Read MoreA breakthrough in Nylon characterization from Malvern InstrumentsSep 20, 2012
A novel gel permeation chromatography (GPC) method for characterizing Nylon, developed by researchers at Malvern Instruments, significantly reduces the cost of analysis while simultaneously improving safety, when compared with conventional techniques
The new method uses formic acid as a solvent for Nylon, in place of the traditional choice of hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIPA), a relatively expensive, aggressively corrosive solvent with poor health and safety characteristics. First presented at a recent webinar by Dr Wei Sen Wong, his breakthrough is expected to generate significant industrial interest...
Read MoreVoltIC pro combines ion chromatography and voltammetry in a single, powerful system for trace ion analysisSep 20, 2012
'Two in one' – that’s the principle of VoltIC pro. Integrating ion chromatography and voltammetry by sharing the same autosampler and software, VoltIC brings together the particular strengths of both techniques in a single, fully automated system – for virtually unlimited possibilities in trace ion analysis
Analytik, leading suppliers of innovative analytical instrumentation, report on the use of the ASD portable FieldSpec® 4 spectroradiometer at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge where the researchers are performing pigment analysis of illuminated manuscripts
Dr Paola Ricciardi is a research associate in the Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Her work is part of the MINIARE project, focusing on Manuscript Illumination: Non-Invasive Analysis, Research & Expertise. MINIARE is a new interdisciplinary collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University of Cambridge's Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Art History and History and Philosophy of Science...
Read MoreBruker CAM aids Energia Technologies analyze alternative biofuel Sep 11, 2012
Imagine being able to grow sustainable transportation fuels? Thanks to analytical technology from Bruker CAM, Energia Technologies, Inc., is one step closer towards addressing the emerging need for alternative liquid transportation biofuels
Its innovative SelectJETTM technology converts plant oils into biojet and biodiesel, which can serve as drop-in replacement to petroleum-based fuels. Now, using Bruker gas chromatography (GC) systems along with CompassCDS and SimDist Software, the research team at Energia Technologies can analyze their product quickly and easily, using the information to feedback into optimizing production processes. A full write-up of this inspiring case study is available...
Read MoreNew videos for Jenway 73 series spectrophotometers help customers get the most from their systemSep 10, 2012
In order to assist customers in the use of their 73 Series Spectrophotometers, Jenway has published online a set of videos for demonstration and training
The Jenway 73 series are entry level spectrophotometers with icon-driven software and a user-friendly navigation system, making them ideally suited for teaching laboratories. The online videos clearly demonstrate how to navigate the instrument, which is especially useful for users unfamiliar with spectrophotometers, and they make remote training easy and accessible. In many situations, when a customer has purchased one of the optional accessories for example, and wishes to know how to fit it, videos are often easier to follow than written instructions...
Read MoreMalvern Zetasizer Nano is integral to QueenSep 6, 2012
"The Zetasizer Nano ZS is an integral piece of equipment in our polymer characterization laboratory," said Daniel Krasznai, Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. "The most important features that the Zetasizer Nano ZS offers are rapidity, reproducibility, and a user-friendly interface."
Daniel Krasznai's supervisor,Dr. Michael F. Cunningham, holds the Ontario Research Chair in Green Chemistry and Engineering at Queen's University. His team focuses on the synthesis of polymer colloids using a range of dispersed free-radical polymerization techniques. Together with Dr. Niels M.B. Smeets, and fellow collaborators Dr. Pascale Champagne and Dr. Timothy F.L. McKenna, they have recently published a paper in which they use the Zetasizer Nano ZS to characterize novel core-shell materials in pure water. Read MoreBiotage Announces EVOLUTE EXPRESS 96-Well Plates; Simplified, Fast and Efficient SPE Using the Load-Wash-Elute ProcedureSep 6, 2012
Biotage® (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, introduced EVOLUTE® EXPRESS, a novel family of 96-well plates that simplify polymer-based SPE by employing a streamlined 3-step protocol; Load-Wash-Elute
By using this novel approach and removing the conditioning and equilibration steps, necessary with traditional bio-analytical SPE procedures, processing and method development times are dramatically reduced without loss of analyte recovery or method robustness.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the Thermo Scientific Acclaim Trinity Q1 HPLC column, designed to facilitate high-resolution and high-throughput trace analysis of the herbicides diquat and paraquat in plants by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometery (LC-MS)...
Using the well-proven Cheminert HPLC injector design and the 24 volt motor from our popular microelectric actuators, the C52 needs only to be connected to the instrument’s power supply. Control is simplified to require a single contact closure; the injector’s position is determined by whether the closure is held high or low. There’s even an easy way for the instrument to confirm the valve’s position by sensing the output from a built-in sensor...
The new Titration/IC system features a single software package that integrates a METTLER TOLEDO Excellence titrator with liquid handler and two IC systems into a system that generates unified reports. Single point instrument control and data reporting reduces operating complexity, which can reduce costs compared to operating the workflow as separate analytical systems. Samples are handled only once and results are reported automatically in a single report. IC analysis is performed simultaneously with titration for a completed analysis in as quickly as 20 minutes...
Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the addition of a 5-micron particle to its Kinetex core-shell product line. As the largest diameter particle in the family, Kinetex 5-micron core-shell columns deliver better performance than 3- or 5-micron fully porous offerings, with no increase in backpressure. In fact, the new 5-micron media provides 90 percent higher average efficiencies compared to the same size fully porous columns and little to no method development is required to achieve improved performance on standard HPLC systems.
This next step forward in Shimadzu’s GCMS history delivers a system capable of handling the fast GCMS and Comprehensive GCMS applications that are more usually the preserve of expensive Time of Flight analysers. Compared with existing triple quadrupole GCMS systems, the GCMS-TQ8030 provides significant increases in scanning speed (20,000 amu/sec) and MRM (Multiple Reaction Monitoring) speed (600/sec) without sacrificing any sensitivity...
At a ceremony officiated by University of North Texas (UNT) Provost Warren Burggren, Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) welcomed UNT’s Metabolomics and Metabolic Signaling Pathway Research Laboratory into the Waters Centers of Innovation Program. The laboratory directed by Professor Vladimir Shulaev is known worldwide for research in the field of metabolomics, the study of all cellular metabolites produced by living organisms. His laboratory is part of UNT's Plant Signaling Cluster, a team of researchers who collaborate to improve the understanding of cellular communication in plants to find solutions related to energy, agriculture, nutrition and medicine...
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the launch of its new Fisher Chemical and Fisher BioReagents Laboratory Reagents Handbook, an essential, easy-to-use reference guide for one-stop access to its comprehensive laboratory reagent ranges. The new Fisher Chemical and Fisher BioReagents Laboratory Reagents Handbook features 250 new products, including an extended range of OptimaTM liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) solvents and high-purity acids for trace elemental analysis, microbiology media and modifying enzymes...
Stratlab has just published its definitive list of •red® (dot-red) branded deuterium (D2) lamps for UV, UV/Vis and HPLC detectors on its webshop. Dozens of manufacturers of UV spectrophotometers / HPLC UV detectors are supported, including ABI, Agilent / HP, Beckman, Cecil, Gibson, Hitachi, Jasco, Perkin Elmer, Thermo, Varian and Waters. For hundreds of instrument models. All lamps are guaranteed for a specified number of hours...
With a comprehensive index and colour-coded sections for quick reference, the new catalogue includes a wealth of advice on thermal desorption, making it a valuable technical resource for the analyst. With over 500 individual items, the catalogue highlights products across the entire portfolio, from sorbent tubes and canisters to instrument spares and software...
As with Bruker’s very successful SCION GC-TQ platform, introduced in 2011, the EVOQ series is targeted at LC-TQ performance leadership and delivers major advances in robustness, ease of method developments and productivity. The EVOQ LC-TQ systems introduced today incorporate Bruker’s new Advance™ Ultra-High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (UHPLC) systems. In addition, the EVOQ platform features several major innovations...
“Everytime you see a child with a helium balloon, imagine somebody not being able to have an MRI scan that they desperately needed,” says Tom Welton, Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at Imperial College. As the professor warns that the helium shortage may soon impact the pharmaceutical industry, contract research organisation Melbourn Scientific, based in Melbourn Herts, is already responding...
NEW Standard High Recovery vial sizes for compound libraries
J.G. Finneran Associates designed Limited Volume Inserts with Bottom and Top Springs to ensure that autosamplers extract even the smallest sample volumes every time, without damaging injection needles or breaking sample containers. The inserts are preassembled with polymer bottom springs or the patented Top Spring™, which act as shock absorbers to protect sample needles from bottoming out during sample extraction. The precision internal point design permits maximum sample withdrawal
Comprising four Porvair p3 protein precipitation plates and four 1ml deep well collection plates (colour coded in red or blue polypropylene) the Combipack provides all the elements you require to undertake protein precipitation separations at a very affordable price...
The new method uses formic acid as a solvent for Nylon, in place of the traditional choice of hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIPA), a relatively expensive, aggressively corrosive solvent with poor health and safety characteristics. First presented at a recent webinar by Dr Wei Sen Wong, his breakthrough is expected to generate significant industrial interest...
The user benefits of the fully automated VoltIC pro system are evident. Samples need to be prepared just once for comprehensive analysis by both techniques, i.e., ion chromatography and voltammetry. This saves considerable amounts of time. Moreover, Results for all parameters are presented in a single database for convenient handling and evaluation...
Dr Paola Ricciardi is a research associate in the Department of Manuscripts and Printed Books at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Her work is part of the MINIARE project, focusing on Manuscript Illumination: Non-Invasive Analysis, Research & Expertise. MINIARE is a new interdisciplinary collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University of Cambridge's Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Art History and History and Philosophy of Science...
Its innovative SelectJETTM technology converts plant oils into biojet and biodiesel, which can serve as drop-in replacement to petroleum-based fuels. Now, using Bruker gas chromatography (GC) systems along with CompassCDS and SimDist Software, the research team at Energia Technologies can analyze their product quickly and easily, using the information to feedback into optimizing production processes. A full write-up of this inspiring case study is available...
The Jenway 73 series are entry level spectrophotometers with icon-driven software and a user-friendly navigation system, making them ideally suited for teaching laboratories. The online videos clearly demonstrate how to navigate the instrument, which is especially useful for users unfamiliar with spectrophotometers, and they make remote training easy and accessible. In many situations, when a customer has purchased one of the optional accessories for example, and wishes to know how to fit it, videos are often easier to follow than written instructions...
Daniel Krasznai's supervisor, Dr. Michael F. Cunningham, holds the Ontario Research Chair in Green Chemistry and Engineering at Queen's University. His team focuses on the synthesis of polymer colloids using a range of dispersed free-radical polymerization techniques. Together with Dr. Niels M.B. Smeets, and fellow collaborators Dr. Pascale Champagne and Dr. Timothy F.L. McKenna, they have recently published a paper in which they use the Zetasizer Nano ZS to characterize novel core-shell materials in pure water. 
By using this novel approach and removing the conditioning and equilibration steps, necessary with traditional bio-analytical SPE procedures, processing and method development times are dramatically reduced without loss of analyte recovery or method robustness.