Application Notes: General

A new era in diagnostics is here—revolutionizing early disease detection with fast, non-invasive analysis powered by cutting-edge spectral technology.

Accurate biomonitoring is critical for occupational health, environmental exposure, and clinical research, but it requires instruments that can handle complex biological matrices, small sample volumes, and ultra-trace detection with high throughput

Raman microscopy and HORIBA’s Layers app reveal chemical and spatial data in multilayer films, supporting defect detection, adhesion checks, and reverse engineering.

Easily measure mercury in fish with no digestion. DMA-80 evo reduces cost, waste, and hands-on time while delivering EPA 7473 compliant results.

Learn how to apply a ‘Total Workflow’ approach to sample preparation for elemental analysis. Leading to increased lab productivity, better data quality, lower costs, and improved safety.

Raman microscopy supports polymer research by characterizing raw materials, monitoring polymerization, analyzing crystallization, and ensuring quality and traceability.

ICP-MS offers ultra-sensitive metal impurities analyses in LiBs cathodes, with the NexION® 1100 ICP-MS helping meet stricter quality standards for better battery performance.

Additives are often utilized to enhance Li-ion battery performance. The Avio® 550 Max ICP-OES provides a suitable test method for additives to Li-ion battery cathodes.

SiBs are a safer, cheaper, greener alternative to LiBs. PerkinElmer's Avio® 550 Max ICP-OES ensures precise, efficient analysis of SiBs cathode materials.

Advanced laboratory solutions enable the development of safer, lighter solid-state batteries, driving EV innovation and supporting the renewable energy shift.

This white paper discusses the key trends, challenges, and potential of emerging battery technologies like solid-state, Li-ion, Na-ion, and recycling advancements.

Solid electrolytes boost Li-ion battery safety and performance. PerkinElmer's Avio® 220 Max ICP-OES ensures precise impurity control below 0.1% for optimal results.

EV demand is growing, boosting Li-ion battery use. The Avio® 550 Max ICP-OES provides accurate, repeatable determinations of the molar ratio of Li to sum of metals in NCMA.

TMA and STA technologies allow in-situ monitoring of the sintering process of solid electrolyte powders, optimizing solid-state battery performance.

This sample prep method enables trace metals analysis in fertilizers, soil, and crops with improved accuracy and reproducibility.

Elemental analysis is crucial in a wide variety of applications from detecting toxic elements within the environment, to ensuring drinking water is safe for human consumption, to food product safety. ICP-MS—able to measure an atom’s mass—offers low detection limits in the range of parts per trillion (ppt), making it a widely used method that can detect toxic elements well below regulatory limits. This paper expands upon how new ICP-MS technology can meet the challenges associated with heightened demands for element analysis and the hurdles laboratories face when analyzing high-matrix samples.

Compositional Depth Profile (CDP) using the LECO GDS950 rapidly provides analysis of various galvanized coatings on steel.

Analyze battery materials with precision using particle size and shape analysis alongside Raman spectroscopy to reveal structure, composition, and performance insights.

This note details a microwave digestion method for Li-ion cathode samples, enabling accurate elemental analysis through ICP-OES with minimal sample loss.

With intensifying global concerns surrounding water quality, explore the benefits of UV spectroscopy for water quality management, including real-time monitoring.

In this exclusive Spectroscopy interview, John Richmond and Tom Dearing of Thermo Fisher Scientific discuss the company’s Raman technology and the latest trends for process monitoring across various applications.

Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) are essential in pharmaceutical manufacturing to ensure compliance with standards like United States Pharmacopoeia <232> and ICH Q3D, as well as FDA regulations. Reliable and user-friendly testing solutions help QA/QC labs deliver precise trace elemental analyses while meeting throughput demands and data security requirements.

ICP-MS is the top choice for trace element analysis in bodily fluids. The NexION® 5000 ensures fast, precise detection in serum with simple sample prep.

USP and ICH Q3D set strict limits for elemental impurities in drugs. The NexION® 1100 ICP-MS ensures accurate, interference-free analysis of pharmaceutical products.

Controlling metal impurities in CO is vital for semiconductor fabrication. The NexION® 2200 ICP-MS with gas direct injection (GDI) enables faster, more sensitive analysis.