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As Klaus Unger turns 80, we review his contributions to the field.

The future of biological and clinical research will depend on technological innovations and cross discipline cooperation as science seeks a deeper understanding of increasingly complex biological systems. The 2016 recipient of the AES Mid-Career Award, Amy Herr, and her team at the University of California Berkeley have explored these areas using a combination of chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering with strong foundations in biology, material science, and analytical chemistry to innovate new microfluidic analytical technology. She recently spoke to LCGC about this work.

Click the title above to open the LCGC Europe August 2016 regular issue, Vol 29, No 8, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open the LCGC North America August 2016 regular issue, Vol 34 No 8, in an interactive PDF format.

Continuing MilliporeSigma’s series of podcasts on the impact of water quality on chromatography techniques, Joe Plurad discusses the practical effects of ultrapure water in a specific area of analysis: The importance of water quality on perchlorate analysis by ion chromatography (IC).

Waters Corporation has announced a collaboration with the Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), a research institute within Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research.

Researchers from Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria, have used chip capillary electrophoresis (CE) in combination with molecular beacons (MBs) to analyze the release of the RNA genome from a human rhinovirus.

Kevin A. Schug considers what the study of chemometrics and experimental design statistics can add to an analytical chemist’s work. Do analytical chemists lack an appreciation for the mathematical and statistical tools used to tease out important information?

Preview of the International Symposium on GPC/SEC and Related Techniques.

Raquel Garcia and Maria João Cabrita reveal the theory and practical applications of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs).

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Click the title above to open The Column July 22, 2016 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 12, Number 13, in an interactive PDF format.

Click the title above to open The Column July 22, 2016 North American issue, Volume 12, Number 13, in an interactive PDF format.

Reservoir sensor monitors HPLC solvent levels during unattended operations over long periods of time. Understand how sensing mechanism ensures HPLC system efficiency.

A group of researchers has studied the migration of monomers and plastic additives from plastic food packaging in microwave heated homemade food and packed liquid food using QuEChERS and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC–MS).

André de Kok, a senior analytical chemist at the at the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), was presented with the Excellence Award at the annual North American Chemical Residue Workshop (NACRW) Conference on July 18, 2016.

While conventional calibration for gel permeation (GPC) and size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) are useful for polymer characterization, there are inherent disadvantages in these analyses. Adding multi-angle light scattering (MALS) detection can help overcome the challenges faced with single-detector chromatography. For more complex polymers, asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) offers additional capabilities. This e-book explains what you need to know about using MALS in polymer analysis.

The title of this piece may have put you off reading it – in which case you won’t be insulted when I say that even the most experienced gas chromatographers often fail to install columns in the best way possible.

This instalment of Tips & Tricks shows the influence of analytical parameters on gel permeation chromatography/size-exclusion chromatography (GPC/SEC)–light scattering results when artificially wrong parameters reflecting typical experimental errors are used.

Matrix-assisted laser desorption–ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) is actually one of the most versatile tools for fingerprinting mixtures.

Traditionally mass detection instruments have been for the mass spec experts and not played a major role in the majority of chromatography labs. With the advent of smaller, more accessible mass detectors, the potential of mass data is coming more and more within the reach of the chromatographer. With this webcast we look to see how the landscape of the chromatography lab is changing and how the value of mass data can be realized by the chromatographer.

Click the title above to open The Column July 08, 2016 Europe & Asia issue, Volume 12, Number 12, in an interactive PDF format.

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