Investigating PFAS in Plastic Food Storage Bags Using LC–MS/MS
May 3rd 2024Yelena Sapozhnikova from the United States Department of Agriculture spoke to The Column about her innovative research investigating PFAS in plastic food storage bags using targeted and non-targeted liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry.
Entering Another Dimension: The Benefits of Multi‑2D LC×LC in Food Analysis
February 15th 2024Lidia Montero and Miguel Herrero from the Institute of Food Science Research in Spain discuss the evolving role of comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography (LC×LC) and multi-second dimension LC×LC (multi-2D LC×LC) in food analysis.
A Modern Mineral Oil Hydrocarbon Analysis
August 1st 2023Giorgia Purcaro of the University of Liège discusses the advantages offered by the liquid chromatography–comprehensive multidimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometer/flame ionization detector (LC–GCxGC–TOF-MS/FID) method in the analysis of mineral oil.
Monitoring Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Environment
May 1st 2023LCGC Europe spoke to Leon Barron from Imperial College London, UK, about his work developing a fully miniaturized workflow incorporating a three-dimensional-printed passive sampler device (3D-PSD) to monitor contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in river water.
Machine Learning and Nontargeted Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry to Assess Ecotoxicity
January 1st 2023Anneli Kruve and Pilleriin Peets from Stockholm University in Sweden, discuss their latest research in machine learning and nontargeted liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) to assess ecotoxicity.
Miniaturized Nano-HPLC–ESI-IMS System for Water Analysis
August 4th 2022Miniaturized LC systems offer the analyst the scope to use less organic solvent and consume less energy. As the demand for green chemistry techniques and methods continues to grow there is demand for smaller and more portable liquid chromatography (LC) analytical instruments.
Szabolcs Fekete Wins 2022 HTC Innovation Award
June 9th 2022LCGC is proud to announce that Szabolcs Fekete is the winner of the 2022 HTC Innovation Award. Fekete was honoured at the Hyphenated Techniques and Separations Technology (HTC-17) conference in Ghent, Belgium on Friday 20 May 2022 for his outstanding contributions to the field of separation science.
Practical 2D-LC in Drug Metabolism Studies and Bioanalysis
February 1st 2022Filip Cuyckens from Janssen R&D in Belgium spoke to LCGC Europe about recent innovative approaches he and his team developed to support drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic studies, and the inventive role that two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) plays in his laboratory to boost sensitivity, solve recovery issues, and increase overall efficiency.
Fast GC–MS for Analyzing Antioxidants and Industrial Food Analysis Applications
July 12th 2021LCGC Europe spoke to Hans-Gerd Janssen from the Unilever Foods Innovation Centre in The Netherlands, about the advantages of a novel, rapid method to analyze antioxidants that inhibit oxidation, and he explains that the maturity of GC technology is actually an advantage to the analyst.
Rising Stars of Separation Science: Katelynn Perrault
July 8th 2021This month we interview Katelynn Perrault, Associate Professor of Forensic Sciences and Chemistry at Chaminade University of Honolulu in Honolulu, Hawaii, about her work translating 1D GC methods to effective comprehensive 2D GC (GC×GC) methods for forensic applications and the benefits that GC×GC offers the analyst.
Non-Targeted Analysis of PFAS in Surface Water Using Fragment Ion Flagging
June 1st 2021Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in surface water have become a major concern due to their persistency and toxicity. We recently spoke to Stefan Van Leeuwen and Bjorn Berendsen of Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), in The Netherlands, about their novel research into non-targeted PFAS screening using an LC–HRMS method with fragment ion flagging.