Pittcon 2010
Pittcon 2010 ended yesterday afternoon at the Orlando Convention Center. As expected, the attendance numbers were down slightly from last year. If you weren't there, please tell us why. If you were, please share your impressions.
Pittcon 2010
There were 9,283 registered conferees at this year's Pittcon compared with 10,823 last year. While the numbers were down, the show still offered much in the way of courses, posters and symposia. The exhibit floor was also buzzing with energy. In speaking with vendors, attendees visiting their booths were, for the most part, serious in their purchasing intentions--most looking for solutions to very specific research problems. If you were one of those, we'd like to hear whether you found what you were looking for.
Speaking of technology, the winners of this year's Pittcon Editors' Choice Awards were:
Gold: Affinity Biosensors' Archimedes Particle Sizing Instrument The Archimedes uses an ultra-high resolution mass sensor to weigh each particle, giving true submicron counting measurements of mass and size with excellent resolution, throughput, reproducibility, and accuracy. There is no dependence on optical properties or shape, and no need for complex "inversion algorithms" or fractionation. Particle density can also be measured.
Silver: Ametek's SPECTRO MS The heart of the SPECTRO MS is the combination of a double focusing Mattauch-Herzog sector field mass spectrometer with a fully novel detector that is able to simultaneously record the complete ion beam. With maintenance-friendly housing, robust systems for vacuum and cooling, a flexible sample introduction system, matrix tolerant interface, an efficient ion optic and simple routine operation, the system offers unique possibilities.
Bronze: MSI Tokyo's infiTOF MS The infiTOF mass spectrometer is based on orbi-electrode technology that dramatically shrinks the size of a TOF MS instrument.
Further nominations included: NanoIR, Anasys; Mass Stream D-6300, Bronkhurst; Shuttle & Find, Carl Zeiss; Discovery-SPD, CEM; ICS 500 CapIC, Dionex; RheolaserLAB, Formulaction; LabNavigator, Forston Laboratories; NexION 300, PerkinElmer; Nanotrap Biomarker Discovery Platform, Shimadzu; LTQ Velos, Thermo Fisher Scientific; First Defender RM, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Prismatic Multi Species Gas Analyser, Tiger Optics; Acquity UPLC H Class, Waters; Mobius Mobility Instrument, Wyatt Technology; FasTOF, Zoex;
