The Gold Editors' Choice Awards was presented to Waters Corporation (Waltham, Massachusetts) for the Synapt HD–MS system at Pittcon 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. Silver Awards were presented to Paraytec (York, United Kingdom) for the ActiPix and Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, California) for the LTQ ETD system. Bronze Awards were presented to Bruker Optics (Billerica, Massachusetts) for the ALPHA FT-IR system and Horiba Jobin Yvon (Edison, New Jersey) for the Activa system.
Pittcon 2007 Editors' Awards
The Gold Editors' Choice Awards was presented to Waters Corporation (Waltham, Massachusetts) for the Synapt HD–MS system at Pittcon 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. Silver Awards were presented to Paraytec (York, United Kingdom) for the ActiPix and Thermo Fisher Scientific (San Jose, California) for the LTQ ETD system. Bronze Awards were presented to Bruker Optics (Billerica, Massachusetts) for the ALPHA FT-IR system and Horiba Jobin Yvon (Edison, New Jersey) for the Activa system.
Many exhibitors regard Pittcon as the premiere industry event and the ideal time and location to introduce advances in analytical instrumentation. Members of the press have acknowledged the numerous products introduced to Pittcon each year by establishing the Pittcon Editors' Awards. Editors meet to nominate, discuss, and contemplate the most significant achievements in the industry. Then they vote on the product to present with the gold, silver, and bronze awards.
Agilent opens center in India
Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) announced its intent to establish an R&D center in Bengaluru, India. The center will host a multidisciplinary team for chemical analysis, molecular biology, and software for creating novel and complex scientific applications on its instruments.
The initial focus will be on liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, but the company hopes to extend the center's focus to include R&D capabilities to other platforms, such as microfluidics, gas chromatography, and microarrays.
Waters collaborates with Hitachi and Shimadzu
Waters Corporation (Waltham, Massachusetts) has announced two significant collaborations.
Waters and Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) intend to develop a software interface for Hitachi's LaChrom Elite liquid chromatograph instruments control for Waters Empower chromatographic data station software.
Likewise, Shimadzu Corporation (Kyoto, Japan) intends to collaborate with Waters to develop software that allows the control of Shimadzu's Prominence LC systems using the Waters Empower chromatography software.
These collaborations respond to user needs and will allow the Hitachi and Shimadzu LC systems to be used with Waters' Empower software with seamless control.
Inside the Laboratory: The Gionfriddo Group at the University at Buffalo
March 28th 2024In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Emanuela Gionfriddo, PhD, an associate professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, discusses her group’s current research endeavors, including using solid-phase microextraction (SPME) coupled to liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) to further understand the chemical relationship between environmental exposure and disease and elucidate micropollutants fate in the environment and biological systems.
Transferring Methods to Compact and Portable HPLC
February 14th 2024The current trend in laboratory equipment design is the miniaturization of laboratory instruments. Smaller-scale HPLC instruments offer benefits that cannot be matched by analytical-scale equipment, especially in the areas of portability, reduced fluid volumes, and reduced operating costs. Yet, the miniaturization of laboratory equipment has brought with it a unique set of challenges, including transferring methods to compact LC. Capillary LC expands the use of LC to applications not currently done using conventional LC in a wide array of application areas, including pharmaceutical, food and beverage, petrochemical, environmental, and oil and gas. Greg Ward, Axcend’s CEO wrote, “Customers want an HPLC system with a small footprint, low flow rates and green chemistry.” Join his podcast where he shares method transfer in these application areas.