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Michelle Horn

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Microwave-Accelerated Extraction — SW-846 Method 3546 and Beyond

Microwave-accelerated extraction (MAE) is described and evaluated. The latest enhancements to this technology are discussed from a hardware and applications perspective.


Elijah Steinbauer

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Analysis of Barbiturates in Urine with Agilent 6430 LC–MS–MS and Poroshell 120 EC-C18

Toxicology Laboratory at the Veterans Administration, Portland, Oregon, USA, Agilent Technologies


Scott Fulton

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High Throughput Microchromatography

The growing importance of biotherapeutics to the pharmaceutical industry has created an increasing demand for protein analysis techniques with high precision, high sensitivity and high throughput.


Wolfgang Weinmann

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Screening by LC–MS-MS and Fast Chromatography: An Alternative Approach to Traditional Immunoassays?

A new technique was developed based on liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry to analyze drugs that are not part of current immunoassay screening, specifically zolpidem, zopiclone, and zaleplone, or "z-drugs."


Xiaobing Wang

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An Improved LC–MS–MS Method for the Determination of Clenbuterol in Human Urine

A sensitive method that reduces the number of false-positive results


Teledyne Tekmar

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Application note: Reversed-Phase Flash Chromatography Purification of Peptide-Peptoid Hybrids

Purification of peptide-peptoid hybrids can be obtained by reversed-phase chromatography with excellent recovery and resolution.


Blas Cerda

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Analysis of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in River Water Samples by UHPLC–TOF-MS

A study of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in river water samples is presented from northeastern United States using ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) coupled with TOF-MS for both targeted and nontargeted analytes


Vadim Davankov

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50 Years in Chromatography and Sorption Techniques: A Look from the East

In both East and West, new ideas have often met resistance.


William Farrell

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In Memory of Walton Caldwell, a Pioneer in SFC

Today, I learned of the passing of a dear friend and a valued collaborator, Walton Caldwell, who founded the company Princeton Chromatography in 1994.


CEM Corporation

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Efficient PFAS Sample Prep, following EPA 1633

Webinar Date/Time: Wed, May 29, 2024 11:00 AM EDT



Josep Esteve-Romero

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Control of Antibiotics by Micellar Liquid Chromatography in Food Samples

Veterinary drugs have become an integral part of livestock production and play an important role in animal welfare maintenance, mainly for preventing disease, curing infection, controlling the risk of disease transmission to humans and for increasing the productive capacity of animals.


Achim Treumann

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The Potential of Polymer Monolithic Capillary Columns for the LC–MS Analysis of Intact Proteins

Describes the preparation of a reversed-phase monolithic column with an optimized porous structure to separate intact proteins using LC–MS.


Craig Taylor

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Cost-Effective Analysis of Major, Minor, and Trace Elements in Foodstuffs Using the 4100 MP-AES

Whether the goal is food safety, ensuring quality or establishing provenance, measuring the trace element content of foods and beverages that we all consume is of paramount importance.


R. Sendon

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Astaxanthin from Shrimp By-products for Active Packaging Systems

The two year international project "Preparation of active packaging with antioxidant and antimicrobial activity based on astaxanthin and chitosan",1 which started in 2009, was funded by FONCYCIT (Fund for International Cooperation of Science and Technology between the European Union and Mexico).


Fabien Pamelard

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Toward Quantitative Imaging Mass Spectrometry

The main limitations of quantification using MALDI imaging are discussed and the different approaches used for quantitative measurement in MSI are evaluated.


Suzanne Fergus

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Identification of Novel Psychoactive Substances Using Hyphenated Mass Spectrometric Techniques

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) techniques offer advantages in separating and confirming the identity of constituents in novel psychoactive substances.


Kevin Wyndham

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Synthesis and Applications of BEH Particles in Liquid Chromatography

How ethylene-bridged hybrid inorganic–organic (BEH) particles are prepared and how their special qualities can be used to improve separations


F Kribbel

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Using MS Data for Peak Tracking in Computer Supported HPLC Method Development

A systematic way to develop HPLC methods consists of building up and running a useful set of experiments (DOE, design of experiments) to evaluate the influence of several factors or method conditions on the selectivity of a chromatogram. The crucial part here is the peak tracking between the chromatograms.


Raphael Legouffe

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Toward Quantitative Imaging Mass Spectrometry

The main limitations of quantification using MALDI imaging are discussed and the different approaches used for quantitative measurement in MSI are evaluated.


Thomas Walter

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Retention Loss of Reversed-Phase Columns Using Highly Aqueous Mobile Phases: Fundamentals, Mechanism, and Practical Solutions

We investigate a phenomenon observed by many practitioners of reversed- phase LC: a dramatic loss in retention volume or time after the column flow is stopped and resumed when using highly aqueous mobile phases with certain columns.


Ambrose Furey

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Monitoring Water Framework Directive Priority Substances in Wastewater

The level of pollutants present in water bodies is most commonly judged against set environmental quality standards (EQSs) that vary among different countries.


Lauryn Bailey

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Lean, Green Food-Testing Machines: How Innovations in Microflow LC-MS Can Improve Food Safety Test Methods

This article describes how a food testing laboratory can transition routine high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) methods to microflow LC for improved sensitivity, throughput, and robustness of analysis.


A. Gravell

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Screening of Pollutants in Water Samples and Extracts from Passive Samples and Extracts from Passive Samplers Using LC–MS and GC–MS

This article describes the GC–MS and LC–MS screening methods developed for the analysis of both low-volume water samples and extracts obtained from various designs of passive samplers.


Sulaf Assi

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Identification of Novel Psychoactive Substances Using Hyphenated Mass Spectrometric Techniques

Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) techniques offer advantages in separating and confirming the identity of constituents in novel psychoactive substances.


Hayley Crowe

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Quantitative Analysis of Drugs of Abuse in Urine Using UHPLC Coupled to A TOF Mass Spectrometer

Human beings have long consumed mind altering drugs to attain a euphoric high. These illegal drugs are obtained directly from natural substances including plants or they are chemically synthesized. Monitoring consumption of abused drugs is important in workplace settings, crime scene investigations, forensic toxicology and other related areas.


Yingzhi Lu

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A Novel Approach to Measure Crop Plant Protein Expression

Crop development to improve yield or disease resistance has been explored for centuries and the technologies to measure these improvements have subsequently become complex.


Stig Pederson-Bjergaard

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Electromembrane Extraction with Vials of Conducting Polymer

In electromembrane extraction (EME), the target analyte is extracted from an aqueous sample across a supported liquid membrane (SLM) and analyzed using LC. Through the study presented here, we demonstrate the principles of the technique and test its performance.


Barbara Frewen

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Use of Synthetic Peptides to Determine Relative Retention Times for Automated Targeted Protein/Peptide Quantification Method Development

Protein/peptide discovery data obtained from data-dependent experiments have been used to increase the success rate of targeted quantification assays as well as automate method building.


Denise Mitrano

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Field-Flow Fractionation Coupled with ICP-MS for the Analysis of Engineered Nanoparticles in Environmental Samples

This article provides an overview of the capabilities of field-flow fractionation coupled with inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry and demonstrates that the technique shows a great deal of promise to separate, detect and quantitate nanoparticles in environmental matrices.