MS of Polymers/Materials II: HPLC and Ion Mobility Separation
June 2nd 2009Wednesday afternoon's session titled "MS of Polymers/Materials II: HPLC and Ion Mobility Separation" is part II of Wednesday morning session, "MS of Polymers/Materials I: Structures and Properties." The second half of this session will pick up where part one left off and address additional topics involving HPLC and other applications.
Applications of Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Room 204
June 2nd 2009Ion mobility spectrometry has found commercial success as a homeland security tool in the field detection of explosives, drugs, and chemical weapons. Other common uses for the technique have been in the pharmaceutical industry for cleaning validation and in the analysis of biological material. The applications to be discussed in this Wednesday morning session include the combination of IMS with MS, the characterization of carbohydrate?protein binding, protein and peptide analysis, IMS-MS analyses with elevated electric field intensities, and neutral ion pair evaporation from ionic liquid nanodroplets
DEA Acquires Waters Instrument for Training Forensic Chemists
June 1st 2009Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts) announced that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has purchased a Waters ACQUITY UltraPerformance liquid chromatograph for use in training new forensic chemists at the agency's Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Dulles, Virginia.
Agilent Technologies Partners with China Environmental Center to Detect Toxins in Water and Soil
June 1st 2009Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) announced it has jointly developed a method to detect and identify perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in water and soil using high-performance liquid chromatography? mass spectrometry (HPLC?MS) with the China National Environmental Monitoring Center (CNEMC).
From the Publisher: Offering Solutions to Today's Problems
June 1st 2009It is no secret that these are tumultuous times we live in. With the economic slowdown, increased dangers abroad, and the recent string of scares involving toxins in everyday foods, there is no shortage of things to worry about in today's world. At LCGC, we've always felt that our Application Notebook is a reflection of not just the recent developments in chromatography and the field of separation science in general, but the world as a whole.
Liquid-Liquid-Liquid Microextraction of Nerve Agents
June 1st 2009Researchers from Vertox Laboratory, Defence Research and Development Establishment (Gwalior, India) used a liquid-liquid-liquid microextraction technique followed by liquid chromatography?mass spectrometry (LC?MS) to examine alkyl alkylphosphonic acids, which are important environmental markers of nerve agents.