October 2014 Issue of The Analytical Scientist

Last year, we berated ourselves for the disappointing show of women in our Top 100 Power List (a measly eight percent). So, how did we do in our Top 40 Under 40?

Inspired by the individuals on The Power List? Jump-start your post-graduate career at a new Australian center focused on portable analysis

How to put instant blood identification and age estimation into the hands of forensic investigators

Multi-isotope analysis uncovers the life story of King Richard III – and, for the first time, links wine intake to oxygen isotope composition

Can SERS accurately detect the early stages of the most common male cancer?

Could a new acoustic micropump inspired by the legs of swimmers open doors for microfluidics?

“During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art,” wrote Herbert Spencer in 1861. So, is analytical chemistry truly as much an art form as a science?

There are more researchers working in industry than in academic facilities – and, in many ways, they are shaping the future more profoundly than their academic colleagues. It’s time to push them into the limelight.

Christopher Harrison described the flipped classroom as an inevitable evolution in teaching. And he’s right – but why has it taken so long for university lecturers to catch on?

Incorrect labeling of foods – sometimes a result of inappropriate or incorrect analysis – can cause needless suffering for people with food allergies. We analytical scientists must step up and change the landscape of food allergen analysis.

Without representative sampling, measurement uncertainty is compromised. Here, we present the current Theory of Sampling versus Measurement Uncertainty debate.

Science and business: tenacious partners in a shaky marriage or eternally bound nonidentical twins?

Is it possible for a cylinder of helium to last years, rather than months? When using a novel split-splitless injection port for gas chromatographs, the simple answer is “yes.” Here, I present the more technical answer.

Sitting Down With… Apryll Stalcup, Director of the Irish Separation Science Cluster, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Raman analysis of graphene on silicon dioxide wafers

Determination of the common anions, such as bromide, chloride, fluoride, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, and sulfate, is often needed in water analytics.

Our second series comes from sunny Salzburg and features Power List regular, Emily Hilder.

Rich invites Pat to chat about the prestigious Pregl Medal and more at ISC2014 in Salzburg

GPC/SEC can be used to characterize commodity or bulk manufactured polymers. Here we describe how the use of formic acid instead of hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) as the dissolution solvent and/or mobile phase can lead to improvements in both cost per analysis and health and safety.