Mass Spectrometry

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.

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.

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.

Can wooden toothpicks be the key to improving detection of drugs of abuse using mass spectrometry?

Can surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) help catch vain criminals?

When bottles of beer from the 1840s were found on a shipwreck, there was only one thought on the minds of analytical scientists: what chemicals do they contain?