Techniques & Tools

Is the heat applied in gas chromatography-mass spectrometry really responsible for false results? And, if so, how often?

Peer reviews, Power Lists and the effects of heat (in GC and discussions).

Tea With Rich returns with six 2015 Power Listers from HPLC in Geneva.

Hormones are examples of contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) that have been detected in environmental and drinking waters around the world in trace amounts (1, 2).

Equipping scanning electron microscopes with Raman imaging to create a 2014 Innovation Award-winning universal microscopy solution.

When Richard Fussell still worked at the UK’s Food and Environment Research Agency, he was the first customer to see the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive™ GC in action – well ahead of its official launch at ASMS 2015. The latest Orbitrap™ innovation made him wonder – not for the first time – if the grass was greener on the other side.

Coupling gas chromatography with Orbitrap™ technology wasn’t easy, but the outcome – the introduction of the Thermo Scientific Q Exactive™ GC – represents a big step towards bringing full-scan, high-resolution, and accurate mass data into routine labs around the world. And my dream of an “Orbitrap in every lab” inches ever closer.

Sitting Down With…Robert (Bob) Kennedy, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, and Chair of the forthcoming HPLC 2016 conference in San Francisco.

The somewhat imperfect peer review process has a long way to go before it could be considered ‘standardized’ – but at least we should be heading in the same direction.

The gift of analytical capability is welcomed with open arms, but needs to go beyond core instrumentation.