Liquid Chromatography

Research Center and Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China.

Can triglyceride fingerprinting and NMR help find adulterated meat?

We started with a simple question: who’s leading the way in chromatography? Here, we present our findings from a publication and citation analysis of international institutions represented in The Analytical Scientist’s 2013 Power List.

Let’s go back to the early 1990s when an important innovation was starting to cause a stir. Electrospray ionization (ESI) essentially allowed liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS) to be combined much more easily as an analytical technique.

Wolfgang discusses the spirit of science, Salzburg and ISC2014 in the latest episode of Tea with Rich.

How The Analytical Scientist Innovation Award (TASIA) winning ionKey/MS System made ultra-sensitive liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) ultra accessible.

Four stationary phase experts – Emily Hilder, Frantisek Svec, Nobuo Tanaka and Sebastiaan Eeltink – discuss the unfolding story of monolithic columns: from chromatographic curiosity to the future of sample preparation?

Other techniques are beating chromatography and mass spectrometry to the hero’s reward all too often. Are they better? No. Are they faster to first result? Yes. Is it time to acknowledge that – on the frontlines – fit-for-purpose triumphs over best-in-class? You decide.

In Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel, Through the Looking-Glass, Alice suggests to her black kitten, “Perhaps Looking-Glass milk isn’t good to drink...” And though our four gurus don’t attempt to predict the potability of milk from a mirror world, they keenly address the broader significance of chirality, the major milestones in chiral analysis, and where the field is heading.

Jenkins Garrett Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.