October 17th 2024
Linda S. Lee of Purdue University discusses her latest research investigating whether highly degraded urban soils could be restored using biosolids.
Q&A: Applying Gas Chromatography to Environmental Geochemistry
March 25th 2014LCGC spoke to Paul A. Sutton, a research fellow in the Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry Group (PEGG) at Plymouth University, about the analysis of crude oil and how high temperature gas chromatography can be used to save millions of dollars for the oil industry.
UHPLC and MS Techniques Aid in Pharmaceutical Research
November 22nd 2013LCGC recently spoke with Pauline Rudd of University College, Dublin, and The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) in Dublin, Ireland, about her work using ultrahigh-pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) for the characterization of protein glycosylation.
Breaking Ground in Protein Column Efficiency with Slip Flow Technology
October 11th 2012The HPLC 2012 conference was abuzz with talk of "slip flow" following the talk given by Mary Wirth of Purdue University about her groundbreaking work involving protein column efficiency. In this interview, Wirth explains how “slip flow†works and what this discovery can contribute to the application of LC-MS to disease research.
Challenging Beliefs About How Core-Shell Particles Work
June 14th 2012In a new paper to be published in the July issue of LCGC North America, Fabrice Gritti and Georges Guiochon of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee) present results from their latest studies in their research on the kinetic mechanisms of chromatography columns packed with core?shell particles.
The Gulf Oil Spill: Labs Unite to Solve Analysis Problems
December 6th 2011LCGC recently interviewed Walter J. Krol, Ph.D., of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (New Haven, Connecticut) about his laboratory?s involvement in analyzing samples from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico using a QuEChERS-based method.