Miniaturized Lab-on-a-Chip for real-time Chemical Analysis of Liquids

A fingertip-sized chip replaces bulky laboratory equipment: The possible applications are extremely diverse

01-Sep-2022 - An infrared sensor has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna) that analyses the content of liquids within the fraction of a second. In analytical chemistry, it is often necessary to accurately monitor the concentration change of certain substances in liquids on a time scale of seconds. Especially in ...

Belgian Chemist Receives 2022 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science

The groundbreaking aspect of her work centers on making circular dichroism ion spectroscopy feasible for large biomolecule ions

21-Apr-2022 - Merck, a leading science and technology company, today presented Dr. Valérie Gabelica (44), Inserm, and Director of IECB, Pessac, France, with the 2022 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science. The award ceremony took place during the analytical conference EuroFAST2022, Nijmegen, the ...

Waters Collaborates with Dr. Sunghwan Kim of Kyungpook National University to Advance Precision Analysis of Complex Chemical Compounds

10-Dec-2020 - Waters Corporation has formally expanded its long-standing, collaborative relationship with Dr. Sunghwan Kim of Kyungpook National University to further explore the use of Waters’ cutting-edge ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) in the investigation of compounds in complex mixtures. Identifying ...

Noble metal-free catalyst system as active as platinum

Affordable high-performance catalysts have come within reach

25-Oct-2018 - The industry has been traditionally deploying platinum alloys as catalysts for oxygen reduction, which is for example essential in fuel cells or metal-air batteries. Expensive and rare, that metal imposes strict restrictions on manufacture. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and ...

Cheap and simple detection of neurotoxic chemicals

02-Aug-2017 - There is a limited amount of data on the global health impacts of pesticides, but many injuries and deaths worldwide can be attributed to their misuse. Pesticide contamination of food and water sources is a very serious problem, particularly in third world countries. The detection of these ...

Triboelectric nanogenerators boost mass spectrometry performance

01-Mar-2017 - Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) convert mechanical energy harvested from the environment to electricity for powering small devices such as sensors or for recharging consumer electronics. Now, researchers have harnessed these devices to improve the charging of molecules in a way that ...

License agreement for analytical chemistry tech signed by ORNL and SCIEX

15-Jan-2016 - The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and SCIEX of Framingham, Mass., have signed a licensing agreement for technologies that speed up, simplify and expand the use of analytic chemistry equipment. SCIEX is a manufacturer of mass spectrometers used to identify and characterize ...

Agilent Technologies Opens New X-ray Diffraction Manufacturing Facility in Wroclaw, Poland

21-Nov-2012 - Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it has opened a new X-ray diffraction manufacturing facility in Wrocław, Poland. The state-of-the-art facility gives Agilent significantly greater manufacturing capacity and enhanced R&D capabilities compared with the company’s old facility. The new site has ...

Analytik Jena: Opening ceremony of new competence center in Moscow with high-ranking guests

12-Oct-2012 - An opening ceremony took place for the newly formed international analytic competence center of Analytik Jena AG in Moscow. This is a shared project of the German manufacturer of analytical instrumentation, its most important sales partner in Russia, InterLab Inc, and of the Moscow Zelinsky ...

'Sifting' liquid at the molecular level

Drexel University engineers develop method for using nanotubes to separate liquids

19-Jul-2012 - Drexel University engineers continue to drive research into the use of carbon nanotubes, straw-like structures that are more than 1,000 times thinner than a single human hair. Their most recent development uses the tiny tubes to separate liquids within a solution. The researchers have shown that ...