September 2021

In the latest instalment of “Practical GC”, Chris English takes an empirical approach and examines concentrations for a wide range of compound polarities on several stationary phases, and determines overload as measured by symmetry.

This month we interview Emanuela Gionfriddo, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University of Toledo in Ohio, USA, about her work quantifying per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) in water using SPME–LC–MS/MS and the evolving field of sample preparation.

The importance of sample preparation for analyzing pain management drugs in different matrices

I’m very much a “big picture” type of thinker. By that, I mean unless I can understand all of the working parts of a problem and understand how they interact, I find it difficult to decide the best approach to figuring out how to solve the issue.

The potential of SPME when combined with MSE for the characterization of olive oil aroma profiles is presented.

Agilent Technologies Inc. have announced Jason H. Yang as the recipient of the 2021 Agilent Early Career Professor Award.

Researchers used an untargeted LC–QTOF-MS method to analyze 32 beers across five different styles.

Biotage has announced an expansion of its production capacity of large-scale flash columns by 300% at a new production facility in Cardiff, UK.

Lab Innovations 2021 set to go ahead on 3–4 November 2021, at the NEC in Birmingham.

Professor Pavel Jandera passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on 5 August 2021 at the age of 77. He was one of the most famous Czech analytical chemists.

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