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This month's instalment of "LC Troubleshooting" focuses on two column-related problems reported by readers. The first deals with a column that takes several injections to "settle down" for each batch of samples. The second relates to short column life as a result of early fouling of the column. Although both of these problems are not encountered with most liquid chromatography (LC) methods, they both appear often enough that we all should be aware of them. It is only a matter of time before you meet one of these problem types with one of your methods.

Researchers from the University of Arkansas have come up with a fibrous nanomaterial suitable for fabricating robust paper-like material and devices. Potential applications for these nanowire assemblies include armour, flame-retardant fabric, bacteria filters, oil cracking, controlled drug release, decomposition of pollutants and chemical warfare agents.

At this year's Desty Memorial Lecture the president of the Chromatographic Society, Chris Bevan, presented the Silver Jubilee medal to Peter Myers. Peter had requested that he received the award at the meeting because Denis Desty, who was the first secretary of the original Chromatography Discussion Group, was very influential in Peter's chromatographic career.

When possible, GC analysis is performed under retention time locked conditions, meaning that allergen elucidation and quantification is based on mass spectral data (scan mode or specific ion detection mode) and on retention time.

In this month's issue features two new articles entitled "The Use of Intelligent Systems and Services for the Efficient Laboratory Management of Liquid Chromatographic Systems" and "Simultaneous Determination of Chelating Agents by Ion-Suppression and Ion-Pair Chromatography in Wastewater."

Cerno Bioscience announces two major agreements have been reached with leading research institutes in China for the use of its ground-breaking MS data analysis software, MassWorks. Cerno has entered into collaborative research in drug metabolism with Dr Dafang Zhong, Director of Drug Metabolism Research at Shanghai Institute of Materia Media, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Cerno has also signed an agreement with Egret Pharma (Shanghai) Limited for extensive use of the MassWorks software in small molecule synthesis.

Sigma-Aldrich Corp. bought Advanced Separation Technologies Inc., a Whippany, N.J., chiral chromatography business. Terms of the cash deal weren't disclosed. The St. Louis chemical company said Advanced Separation has $2 million in annual revenues. Sigma-Aldrich said the purchase won't affect earnings in 2006 but will help it meet growth goals over the next several years.

Grace Davison, an operating segment of W. R. Grace & Co., has established the BioFuel Technologies Group that will oversee intensified product development in the renewable fuels industry.

The Pittsburgh Conference announced its educational programs for science teachers and students, as well as grant award deadlines for its annual Science Week program held in conjunction with Pittcon 2007, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois. Science Week (February 24 - March 1, 2007) is an educational outreach program conducted during the annual Pittcon Expo and Conference in the host city. In addition to educational programs, Science Week offers workshops for students, a Thursday morning lecture accompanied by a demonstration, and workshops for local science teachers.

News All the news from October 2006 Opinion Zosimus evaluates the discrepancies that exist between the content off some applicants' CVs and the true value of their PhD degrees. Market Trends & Analysis Glenn Cudiamat provides a report on the worldwide life science and analytical instrument industry. Monolithic Silica Columns for Fast liquid Chromatography Sami Kamal El Deeb and Hermann Watzig Multi-Targeting Pesticides Petra Decker, Matthias Pelzing, Christian Neusub and Ralf Ketterlinus Meeting Preview 23rd LC-MS Montreux Symposium Meeting report 11th Desty Memorial Lecture for innovation in Separation Science Supplies and Services Q&A Professor Stig Pederson-Bjergaard from the School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Norway talks about the development and benefits of liquid-phase microextraction.

The Pittsburgh Conference (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) announced that Charles M. Lieber will deliver a plenary lecture entitled "Nanowire Nanoelectronic Devices for Detection of and Interfacing to Biological Systems" at Pittcon 2007, 25 February–2 March 2007, in Chicago, IL. The lecture will begin the conference's technical program on Sunday, 25 February 2007.

October 2006. This year, the Chromatography Society is celebrating its 50-year anniversary. On the occasion of this anniversary, E.R. Adlard, one of the true pioneers of GC and a leading member of the organization, reports on the most important papers presented at the symposia in the first decade.

Bio-Rad Laboratories' Informatics Division has received a gold award for its KnowItAll Informatics System spectroscopy software and a silver award for its KnowItAll Cheminformatics Edition. The company was chosen by readers of Scientific Computing in the 2006 Readers' Choice Awards.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced that its researchers have developed a miniature wireless data chip that could provide broad access to digital content in the physical world.

Producers of mass spectrometers design their instruments to work well within specific parameters.

In month's issue features two new articles entitled "Characterization of Liposomes and Viral Particles Using Asymmetrical Flow Field-Flow Fractionation Coupled to Multiangle Light Scattering" and "High-Stakes Competition: Advances in Chromatography Stay Ahead of Dopers."

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Waters Corporation announced today it will expand its research collaboration with Imperial College London by equipping the Waters Laboratory of Molecular Spectroscopy at Imperial College London with three high-end research instruments - the Waters ACQUITY UPLC System, and Waters Q-Tof Premier and GCT Premier Mass Spectrometers.

Thermo Electron Corporation, world leader in analytical instrumentation was recently awarded the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award, for a second consecutive year, in recognition for providing Excellence in Customer Service to its customers. The award presented to Thermo included two categories: Installation Service Representative and Field Service Engineer.

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Aspectrics, Inc., the innovator of Encoded Photometric Infrared Spectroscopy (EP-IR) analyzers, has just concluded a strategic agreement with the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC) of the University of Washington.