SHOW REVIEW By Tamsyn Cox Editors’ Choice Awards
This year's Editors' Choice Awards, which honours the best new products of the year, were announced at Pittcon in Orlando. There were numerous nominees put forward by registered press members attending the show, however, the final decision was somewhat unanimous.
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SILVER AWARD
Ametek's Spectro MS S
BRONZE AWARD
MSI Tokyo's infiTOF Mass Spectrometer
A new miniature multi-turn time-of-flight (TOF) analyser ‘infiTOF’ has been released by first time Pittcon exhibitors, MSI Tokyo. Their infiTOF mass spectrometer is based on orbi-electrode technology that dramatically shrinks the size of a TOF MS instrument. This instrument consists of an electron ionisation source, the multi-turn TOF analyser, a detector, vacuum system and electrical circuits. The multi-turn TOF analyser consists of four electrostatic toroidal sectors and two additional electric toroidal sectors for the purpose of an ion
injection/ejection. The size of the system is 456mm x 234mm x 640mm and weighs 35kg, including the vacuum pump and electric circuits. The multi-turn TOF analyser is capable of high mass resolving power due to its infinite flight path using perfect space and time focused closed flight orbit. The MULTUM-S II offers high mass resolution in a miniaturised mass spectrometer. The company started as a venture of Osaka University.
BRONZE AWARD
Affinity Biosensors is pleased to announce that its new particle characterisation platform, ARCHIMEDES, has won the Editors’ Gold Award for Best New Product at Pittcon 2010. ARCHIMEDES measures the mass, size, and density of particles as they enter a microfluidic channel contained within a MEMS resonator. Particles weighing as little as a single femtogram (0.000000000000001 g) and as small as 50 nanometers can be measured, giving resolution and accuracy superior to conventional light scattering methods. Archimedes addresses industrial manufacturing and R&D applications in pharmaceuticals and drug delivery; paints, inks, and coatings; advanced materials and chemicals; and in alternative energy and nanotechnology. The gentle fluidics also accommodate biological samples such as bacteria, algae, and other cells, with resolution a million times better than a quartz crystal microbalance.
The Spectro MS, the worldwide first fully simultaneously measuring mass spectrometer with inductively coupled plasma (ICP-MS), was distinguished with this award. The Spectro MS records the entire elemental spectrum between lithium and uranium for every analysis.
Users achieve a greatly increased sample throughput rate and much better precision and accuracy compared to using a sequential mass spectrometer. Simultaneous recording of the entire spectrum is enabled by a series of newly designed high-end components, while the housing, software and excitation technology for the Spectro MS are closely related to those of the ICP-OES flagship, the Spectro ARCOS.
ILM Features Editor Tamsyn Cox (left) with Schinichi Miki of MSI Tokyo (right)
A robust, free-running 27.12 MHz generator is used as the plasma generator in the new instrument; guaranteeing extremely stable power coupling in the plasma. The range of applications for the new Spectro MS is diverse. Spectro sees the most important application areas in research and development laboratories with extremely high sample throughput and high demand.
Shinichi Miki, of MSI Tokyo, commented: “I have been working on MS for more then 20 years and I still believe that MS has many more possibilities. MultiTurn technology has a chance to open a new door.”
Manfred Bergsch, Spectro’s Managing Director, commented: “This award proves our courageous theory that the Spectro MS will change ICP mass spectrometry forever. The option of being able to simultaneously measure will start a revolution in the market similar to the one that occurred several years ago in optical emission spectrometers.”
Affinity Biosensors’ CEO, Ken Babcock, said: “It means a great deal to us to have Archimedes receive this recognition at Pittcon. Archimedes is the culmination of development that started with the pioneering work of Scott Manalis at MIT, continued with our MEMS partner Innovative Micro Technology, and was supported by the National Science Foundation. We believe this award anticipates the broad acceptance of Archimedes as a significant new approach to particle characterisation.”
SILVER AWARD
S GOLD AWARD
Affinity Biosensors' Archimedes Particle Sizing Instrument
GOLD AWARD
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Waters' H Class, Wyatt Technology's Mobius Mobility, Dionex's ICS 500 CapIC, Formulaction's RheolaserLAB, Anasys' NanoIR, Forston Labs' LabNavigator, Zeiss's Shuttle & Find, CEM's Discovery-SPD, PerkinElmer's NexION 300, ZOEX's FasTOF, Shimadzu's Nanotrap Biomarker Discovery Platform, Thermo's LTQ Velos, Tiger Optics' Primatic Multi Species Gas Analyser, Bronkhurst's Mass Stream D-6300, and Thermo's First Defender RM.
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