Application Notes: General

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.

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.

Trace impurities in tungsten hexacarbonyl must be measured precisely. The NexION® 1100 ICP-MS eliminates interferences, enabling accurate multi-element analysis.

ICP-MS is the go-to for detecting trace elements in bodily fluids. The NexION® 5000 makes urine analysis easy and precise with simple dilution—no digestion needed!

Ultra-pure NMP is essential in semiconductor fabrication. The NexION® 2200 ICP-MS enables precise, interference-free trace metal analysis, ensuring high-purity standards.

Si isotope analysis reveals insights into geological and biological processes. The NexION® 5000 ICP-MS offers high sensitivity, accuracy, and stability for precise ratio measurements.

Ultra-high-purity HCl is crucial in semicon wafer cleaning. The NexION® 2200 ICP-MS accurately quantifies ultra-trace impurities, minimizing interferences and sample prep.

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Annual Scientific Meeting took place from February 17 to 22, 2025, in Baltimore, Maryland. In this video interview, we speak with Tom Metz of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Heidi Eldridge of George Washington University, and Claire Glynn of the University of New Haven, all of whom attended AAFS this year and delivered important talks that provide insight into the state of the forensic science industry. Metz, Eldridge, and Glynn provide summaries of the talks they delivered at AAFS.

Discover how Hamamatsu Photonics’ CMOS image sensors are adapted to meet the evolving applications of water analysis, food inspection, and industrial position detection

Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) is the preferred technique for inorganic contaminant analysis of biodiesel, and PerkinElmer offers two technologies to support it. The Avio 220 Max and Avio 550 Max, combined with PerkinElmer's expertise, can help labs achieve accurate feedstock analysis demanded by today's market.

In BioTech R&D, overcoming data fragmentation is crucial as it hinders innovation, leads to redundant efforts, and wastes resources.