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Recent advances in polymer chemistry have led to the development of novel materials with both controlled functionality and structure resulting in unusual rheological properties.

Microemulsion-based HPLC (MELC) is a recent development offering reduced sample preparation times for complex samples and generic separation conditions applicable to a wide range of solutes. This article introduces the concepts of MELC and discusses the possible benefits and future applications.

FMS introduces the only known "Total Solution" Sample Prep system available that combines 3 systems in 1 economical package. The Total Prep performs the entire extraction, sample clean-up and concentration for six samples in less than a few hours, thus producing high recoveries and excellent precision for all analysts.

The answers to the following reader questions about degassing mobile phase solvents were supplied by LCGC's "LC Troubleshooting" columnist John Dolan.

The introduction of new silica-based media in the last four years, that are stable to either acidic or basic conditions, provides the chemists more flexibility in choosing mobile phase conditions.

Operators of the Agilent 6410 triple quadrupole liquid chromatography–mass spectrometer (LC–MS) system look set to benefit from a collaboration between the National Laboratory Service (NLS) and Agilent Technologies. The two will collaborate to launch an environmental training programme...

The Shimadzu prominence Nano is a nano-flow LC system comprising of the LC-20ADnano nano solvent delivery module, the FCV nano-low channel selection valve, the Nano-Assist control software and other prominence units.

This year JASCO celebrates its 50th anniversary in the analytical instrumentation market and the company's celebrations conclude with Jasco Europe, a subsidiary of Jasco Corporation, moving into its new facilities in Cremella (Italy) in November 2008...

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Proxeon (Odense, Denmark) announced completeion of a project to integrate the company?s EASY-nLC system software with Thermo Fisher Scientific?s (Waltham, Massachusetts) Xcalibur software.

Researchers from the University of Córdoba (Córdoba, Spain) studied the use of simultaneous liquid-liquid microextraction and methylation along with headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to determine nine haloacetic acids in drinking water.

Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Massachusetts) has opened a new facility in Reinach, Switzerland, near Basel, to support pharmaceutical and chemical companies in Switzerland near the French and German borders.

A research group from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thesaloniki, Greece) analyzed royal jelly, an important bee product, fortified with nine pesticides.

Celebrations for JASCO's 50th anniversary in the analytical instrumentation market will conclude with Jasco Europe, a subsidiary of Jasco Corporation, moving into its new facilities in Cremella, Italy in November 2008.

Teledyne Tekmar Company (Mason, OH), a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has partnered with Sun Analytical Instruments. Sun Analytical Instruments will be responsible for managing sales for Tekmar?s analytical instruments in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Varian Inc. (Walnut Creek, CA) and Flora Research Laboratories (Grants Pass, OR) have formed an alliance to advance the understanding and implementation of LC-MS solutions for complex dietary supplement analysis.

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg and other sites in Sweden, along with researchers from Portland, Oregon and Quebec, Canada conducted a study to examine the role of serum sex steroids in fracture risk among men.

NLISIS Chromatography (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) received two awards for its branding and design efforts: The Design Management Europe Award and the Dutch Design Awards.

According to a report in Nature News, nitrogen trifluoride is an extremely potent greenhouse gas used in the electronics industry, which is at least four times more abundant in the atmosphere than previously thought. Scientists recommend that to better control its use, NF3 should be added to the list of gases regulated under future climate-change agreements.

Researchers from US EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) and East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina) used supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) to recover aflatoxin B1 from fortified soil.

Chemists from the University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota) used solid-phase microextraction (SPME) to extract aldehydes from an aqueous solution.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is awarding the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 to Osamu Shimomura (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School), Martin Chalfie (Columbia University, New York), and Roger Y. Tsien (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California) for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP).

A research group from the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) studied the use of stir-bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) with polyurethane and polydimethylsiloxane polymeric phases and high performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detection for the analysis of six acidic pharmaceutical compounds in environmental water matrices such as river, sea, and wastewater samples.

The David H. Murdock Research Institute (Kannapolis, NC) announced that Waters (Milford, MA) will be the primary supplier of analytical science solutions, including mass spectrometers, liquid chromatographs, and associated scientific data management software.

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