Analytical Instrumentation

As usual, there was concern at the 63rd Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon 2012) about how well the conference is doing.

As laboratories look for ways to save time and money, some enterprising scientists have devised a way to do both in their work. Lance Heinle and Gary Jenkins, drug-development scientists at Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, IL), have created a high-throughput LC-MS-MS system using instrumentation already in place in their laboratory.

Our yearly review of the hottest products at Pittcon

Establishing credibility and reliability of the information provided by a Fourier transform–infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer is paramount to mitigating risk in the QA/QC laboratory, where simple, fast and error-free analysis of unknown materials or material verification are required. To meet the demands of a modern QA/QC laboratory, FT-IR spectrometers must include capabilities that shift the burden of proving the reliability of the information away from the analyst so they can concentrate on the sample, not on verifying the integrity of the data. Recent design advances in both FT-IR spectrometer hardware and software give users greater confidence by continually reporting instrument status and performance verification, efficiently and effectively running pass–fail tests against specification, and easily adjusting to the degree of variation in a given set of products.

Howard Mark brings readers his annual report on all that was new and innovative at Pittcon, held this year in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center.

Spectroscopy columnist Howard Mark takes a comprehensive look at the products that were introduced at Pittcon 2009 in Chicago.

Pittcon 2009 will celebrate its 60th anniversary of showcasing the most advanced instrumentation and technologies and presenting the latest advances in scientific research.

In the second installment of this tutorial, the authors explain the instrumentation for measuring naturally occurring stable isotopes, specifically the magnetic sector mass spectrometer.

With the unprecendented attention paid to the subject of process analytical technoloy

Spectroscopy is proud to present its annual review of products displayed at our industry's premier trade show, the Pittsburgh Conference. The Spectroscopy editorial staff spent a good portion of the show investigating and collecting information on exhibitors' offerings, and a sampling of those instruments appear below, including a brief product description and the company's name and Web address. We have made every effort to provide as comprehensive a listing as possible, but as in years past, we cannot claim to have made a complete record of every product shown at the conference.

Spectroscopy?s annual overview presents new instrumentation that was introduced at the Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (PittCon), held this year March 10?13 in Orlando, Florida.

An overview of the history of the Chemical Heritage Foundation Scientific Instrumentation Museum.

This article discusses the sales of analytical and life science instrumentation in 2001.