The LCGC Blog: An RGB Additive Color Model for Analytical Method Evaluation
October 2nd 2019Traveling to interesting places for conferences and hearing new ideas is certainly one of the most enjoyable aspects of a faculty position. Recently, I attended the 16th International Interdisciplinary Meeting on Bioanalysis (CECE 2019) in Gdansk, Poland. I was absolutely delighted both by the city and the scientific quality of the meeting.
Highlights from the HPLC 2019 Symposium
October 1st 2019The 48th International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques (HPLC 2019), chaired by Alberto Cavazzini and Massimo Morbidelli, was held from 16–20 June in Milan, Italy. This instalment of “Column Watch” covers many of the highlights observed at the symposium.
Sampling: The Ghost in Front of the Laboratory Door
October 1st 2019How does one meet the most demanding part of an analysis-sampling? A typical example is soil, which presents a twofold problem for the analyst: first, the selection of the sites where the samples are taken, and second, the reduction of a sample (for example, 1 kg) to the analysis aliquot size (for example, 10 μL). This paper describes the details of sampling issues.
Petroleum Pollution Analysis with Ramped Pyrolysis GC–MS
October 1st 2019LCGC Europe spoke to Zhanfei Liu from the Marine Science Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas USA, about the advantages of ramped pyrolysis GC–MS to analyze petroleum pollution from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2019)
September 10th 2019The 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Analysis (RAFA 2019) will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5–8 November 2019. This preview offers a glimpse of what to expect at the conference.
New LC–MS Detection Method for Short Peptides
September 10th 2019Researchers from the University of Rome have developed a strategy for the identification of underivatized short peptides in urine using graphitized carbon black (GCB) solid-phase extraction (SPE) and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS).