Nobel Laureate Presents Pittcon Plenary Lecture
Nobel Laureate, Sir Harold (Harry) Kroto, will present the Wallace H. Coulter Plenary Lecture at Pittcon 2013.
Nobel Laureate, Sir Harold (Harry) Kroto, will present the Wallace H. Coulter Plenary Lecture at Pittcon 2013. His talk will be entitled “Exameter Objects to Nanometer Ones and Back Again”. The plenary lecture will be part of the opening session for the event, which will be held in the Pennsylvania Convention Centre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 17–21 March 2013.
Sir Harold is currently Francis Eppes professor of chemistry at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA, investigating nanoscience and cluster chemistry. He was knighted for his contributions to chemistry in 1996 and later in the same year his laboratory experiments involving the simulation of chemical reactions in the atmospheres of red giant stars uncovered the existence of C60 — also know as Buckminsterfullerene —the third well-characterized allotrope of carbon.
Kroto, together with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley, won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this ground-breaking work. He has won numerous other awards including the Copley Medal and Faraday Lectureship of the Royal Society, as well as the Tilden Lectureship and Longstaff Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
For more information about the event visit ref="http://www.pittcon.org">www.pittcon.org
HPLC 2025 Preview: The Present and Future of Automation in Analytical Laboratories
May 22nd 2025Analytical laboratories are undergoing a fundamental transformation. In the face of increasing sample volumes, growing regulatory requirements, and the rising demand for faster, more precise, and cost-efficient analysis, optimizing laboratory processes is becoming a central focus. Automation technologies offer promising solutions in this regard. Recently, they have evolved from isolated solutions to comprehensive systems that permeate nearly all areas of laboratory practice. This development not only opens up new opportunities in terms of efficiency, data quality, and scalability but also brings technical, organizational, and personnel challenges. To successfully address these, strategic approaches are needed that consider both the technological and human dimensions of the transformation.
Quantifying Isavuconazole in Dried Blood Spots Using HPLC
May 21st 2025Isavuconazole, an antimycotic agent used to treat fungal infections, can typically be found during dried blood spot sampling. However, there are obstacles that keep it from being an ideal approach for properly determining the drug’s presence.
Separating and Quantifying Spinach Flavonoids with UHPLC–MS/MS
May 21st 2025Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Children's Nutrition Research Center (Houston, Texas) developed and validated a high-throughput extraction and ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–MS/MS) method to separate and quantify 39 spinach flavonoid species in 11.5 min.
