LCGC North America-12-01-2009

John Dolan looks at ways to get to the root of some of the most common problems encountered in the lab.

Short Courses

In the inaugural installment of his new column, LCGC veteran Michael Swartz provides an overview of some of the newer LC technology used in contemporary LC laboratories.

Michael Balogh uses examples such as the recent acetonitrile shortage to examine the topic of "the unknowable" as it pertains to separation science.

In this installment, columnist Ron Majors and guest columnist Frantisek Svec address the current status of CEC, once the hottest topic in the field.

LCGC provides its annual editorial index as a resource for readers.

For many in the world of chromatography and separation science in general, it has been a long 12 months to say the least. With an economic recession gripping the nation and causing secondary effects such as the well-documented "Great Acetonitrile Shortage of 2009," it is easy to see why many readers will not be sorry to see the end of 2009, and why they will be all too happy to welcome in 2010.