Recently, a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) detector for gas chromatography (GC) was introduced into the market, taking a top five spot in The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards 2014 in the process.

My group is working on several new things for GC×GC right now.

The quest for greater separation power, in terms of peak capacity, has inevitably led to the development of multidimensional chromatographic techniques.

Ahead of ISCC & GC×GC 2015 symposium, we bring together a posse of multidimensional ranchers for a glimpse of what’s going on in the field – and what to expect at the Texan conference.

For years, thin layer chromatography has been working hard in the background, the choice technique in certain applications. More recently, hyphenation with mass spectrometry has been a relatively quiet – but very real – game-changer. What have you been missing?

In 2014, Select-eV took a top spot in The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards (TASIAs). Here, the technology is teamed up with (GC×GC)-MS in an unusual international environmental monitoring project.

Even as advances in engineering technologies and manufacturing processes have lowered the cost to make and distribute products, the demand for continued improvement is as strong as ever.

Copolymer analysis can be complex. The 2D approach is the only way to determine molar mass and chemical composition distributions simultaneously.

Sitting Down With... Gérard Hopfgartner, Professor in Analytical Sciences and Mass Spectrometry and Head of the Mass Spectrometry Platform of the Sciences Faculty, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

When I was asked to evaluate a brand-new instrument with disruptive potential in my field, I did not spend long thinking about the answer. Here, I share a little background and my first impressions.