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Why modern software is the key to unlocking your instrument’s full potential

By combining an informative presentation with a real demonstration using Thermo Scientific Qtegra ISDS software for ICP instrumentation, attendees will see first hand how software can optimize analysis and instrument workflows, help users avoid common pitfalls of method development and ensure data compliance first time, every time.

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Last Month's Most Accessed Feature: Magnetic switch: Terahertz controller

A terahertz laser developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland could be used to control the magnetization in a material on a timescale of just picoseconds. The extremely short pulses of electromagnetic radiation allow the magnetization to be changed with only a tiny delay opening up a new route to on-off switching in such materials for microelectronics and computing applications.

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Pittcon 2014

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Make your plans now to attend Pittcon 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. Prepare for a week of discovery, learning and connecting while participating in product demos and webinars, informative lectures, networking activities and dynamic short courses.

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Laser fluorescence: It's a gas

David Bradley

Oct 15, 2013

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Using what they refer to as off-the-shelf, US researchers have developed a laser fluorescence spectroscopic technique to measure how and when nanocrystals adsorb and release hydrogen or other gases. The new investigative approach could be useful in research into lower-cost catalytic converters for vehicle exhausts, the future development of fuel cell technologies and improved gas sensors for industrial and anti-terrorism applications.

A pilot study assessing the use of LA–ICP–MS to analyse the clay matrix in pottery revealed the challenges of the technique for highly heterogeneous materials.

Explosive laser: Shedding light on bombs

David Bradley

Sep 15, 2013

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A laser that can detect microscopic traces of explosive chemicals on clothing and luggage has been developed by researchers at Michigan State University. The development opens up the possibility of the accurate identification of terror suspects are baggage that may represent a bomb threat at airports and other security checkpoints.

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While even the best analytical techniques cannot rectify problems generated by sloppy sample preparation, this less "sexy" step between the point at which analytes are transferred from the sample matrix to a form suitable for analysis is often overlooked. Read a free chapter from "Sample Preparation Techniques in Analytical Chemistry " here.

See how you can determine the emission spectra of hydrogen and other elements with a diffraction grating, a meterstick, and a little trigonometry.

Professor Tony Mallet of the University of Greenwich presents an essay on elemental compositions from 'accurate mass' determinations.

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ChemSusChem is a top interdisciplinary journal for research at the interface of chemistry and sustainability. The journal features the best research on sustainability and energy by publishing contributions from chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, and biotechnology

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Trace Analysis of Specialty and Electronic Gases

William M. Geiger, Mark W. Raynor

Jul 29, 2013

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The Forensic Examination and Interpretation of Tool Marks

David Baldwin, John Birkett, Owen Facey, Gilleon Rabey

Jul 19, 2013

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Handbook of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, 2nd Edition

David A. Cremers, Leon J. Radziemski

Apr 26, 2013

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Compound conundrum #3 - and the answer!

Steve Down

Oct 8, 2013

In the next of this occasional series, can you work out the trivial name of this compound?

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Pittcon 2013 Editors' Gold Award – Senova Systems

Date: Mar 28, 2013

Eileen Skelly Frame from Instrument News talks with Senova CEO, Lee Leonard, about the pHit calibration-free pH meter which won this year's Pittcon Editors' Award Gold Medal.

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