September 2014 Technology News

The latest equipment, instrument and system introductions to the laboratory market.

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Analytical

ICP-OES System

5100

  • Enables customers to run samples faster, using less gas and without compromising performance on tough samples
  • Especially suited for labs doing food, environmental, and pharmaceuticals testing as well as mining and industrial applications
  • Requires only one sequential measurement per sample
  • Intuitive ICP Expert software and Dichroic Spectral Combiner technology take the guesswork out of method development

Agilent www.agilent.com 

Glycan Mapping Column

AdvanceBio

  • Designed to deliver fast, high resolution glycan separations
  • Enable laboratories to complete high-resolution glycan mapping separations in less than 10 minutes
  • Available in two UHPLC configurations: 2.7 μm superficially porous particles for high resolution and low backpressure (stable to 600 bar), and 1.8 μm for highest resolution,stable to 1200 bar

Agilent www.agilent.com 

Triple Quadrupole GC-MS/MS

GCMS-TQ8040 with Smart MRM

  • Enables analysis of more than 400 compounds in a single MRM run
  • MRM Optimization Tool automatically determines optimum transitions and collision energies for all compounds in a single sequence, and seamlessly incorporates them into the Smart Database Series for fully automated MRM method development
  • Efficient ion source and collision cell provide low detection limits

Shimadzu www.shimadzu.com 

Triple Quadrupole GC-MS

TSQ 8000 Evo

  • Improves on the features of its predecessor, the TSQ 8000, with new EvoCell technology, demonstrated in company-run experiments to triple selected reaction monitoring (SRM) transition rates without compromising sensitivity
  • Includes Timed-SRM software for optimizing selected reaction monitoring schedules
  • Instrument’s ExtractaBrite ion source is designed for high matrix tolerance to minimize sample preparation and cleaning

Thermo Fisher Scientific www.thermoscientific.com 

Accelerated Chromatographic Isolation

ACI ™

  • New advances convert simple flash purification into a faster and more economical way to isolate pure compounds
  • Traditional purification taking more than 15 minutes is reduced to 5 minutes; a 250 mg scale laboratory scale experiment can now be purified in less than 3 minutes on a 10 g column with an ACI™ enabled Biotage Isolera™ flash purification system

Biotage www.biotage.com 

Integrated HPLC Series

i-Series

  • Improves productivity and promotes an advanced laboratory environment with operation capabilities from the built-in touch panel and a smart device, thereby enabling a PC-free laboratory
  • Consists of the Nexera-i, which supports ultra-high speed analysis, and the Prominence-i, which supports conventional to high-speed analysis
  • Enables control of the instrument from a smart device, such as a smartphone, and via a newly-developed Interactive Communication Mode

Shimadzu www.shimadzu.com 

Product Spotlight

Reimagining UHPLC

New system aims to boost usability, productivity, and performance

Thermo Fisher Scientific recently launched a new ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) system that aims to increase laboratory production levels whether it’s used with mass spectrometers or as a standalone system.

The Vanquish UHPLC features a clean design and stands about 25 percent lower than comparable modular stacks for safety and convenience in the laboratory. The instrument itself combines the ruggedness of an integrated system with the flexibility and serviceability of a modular system.

“Rather than making incremental improvements to UHPLC, Thermo Fisher Scientific has designed this system from the ground up,” said Fraser McLeod, vice president and general manager of HPLC at Thermo. “The result is a system that combines advantages in separations performance, sample throughput, ease-of-use, reproducibility and method transfer efficiency.”

Along with the system comes a new family of UHPLC columns–Accucore Vanquish. The new columns feature 1.5 μm solid core particles utilizing Core Enhanced Technology to take advantage of the Vanquish system’s 1500 bar (22,000 psi) maximum pump pressure and flow rate up to 5mL/min for ultra-short diffusion path lengths and highly efficient separations.

The Vanquish also includes a number of other interesting features, such as SmartFlow pumping technology designed for highly reproducible retention times and low baseline noise to enhance detection sensitivity; and an insulated autosampler compartment with new air-to-air cooling, which protects vials from water condensation, even in hot and humid environments.

In addition, there are some cool optional features, such as a handheld tablet that lets users conveniently monitor system status, check runs, and make changes.

For more information, visit www.thermofisher.com/vanquish 

HF System

Q Exactive

  • Designed for faster identification, characterization, quantification, and confirmation in a single, high-confidence analysis
  • Maximum scanning rate increases from 12 Hz to 18 Hz to accelerate productivity
  • Maximum resolution is 240,000 at m/z 200
  • Advanced quadrupole technology optimizes precursor selection and transmission for excellent detection of low-abundance ions in very complex matrices

Thermo Fisher Scientific www.thermoscientific.com 

High Performance Ion Mobility Spectrometer

MA3100

  • Easily integrates with Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™ mass spectrometers
  • Enhances mass spectrometry technology by increasing versatility, simplifying complex spectra, and allowing for targeted analysis of gas phase ions that is not always possible by mass spectrometry alone
  • Exchangeable with the current ionization sources of the MS, and when installed it will be detected and controlled by the MS software in forthcoming releases

Excellims www.excellims.com 

Basic Lab

Compact -80°C Storage Systems

BiOS® M and L

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