10 XRF Spectrometer for Advanced Materials Characterisation
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc announced the new Thermo Scientific ARL PERFORM’X X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer for advanced materials characterisation. The ARL PERFORM’X integrates bulk elemental analysis capabilities with mapping and small spot analysis to create a solution that offers unmatched versatility and performance for the analysis of any solid or liquid sample.
The ARL PERFORM’X is a highly precise system offering users a choice of analysed area size from 35mm to 0.5mm. As well as measuring the standard chemical composition of samples, the system facilitates elemental small spot analysis enabling analysts to pinpoint focus on specimen sections as small as 0.5 mm, significantly improving the versatility of analyses. The instrument’s advanced X-ray mapping and sample visualisation capabilities also enable users to identify and characterise inhomogeneities, such as elemental inclusions, defects and gradients in samples previously unidentifiable. The ARL PERFORM’X has the capacity to handle samples of many sizes and types including solids, liquids, powders and thin films, providing laboratories with unrivalled versatility that outperforms other solutions.
Designed for analytical laboratories in areas as diverse as geochemistry, chemical, petrochemical, materials science, contract laboratories and process control, the system’s speed, reliability and flexibility make it ideally suited to solving composition problems in demanding industrial process and quality applications. With dual sample loading the ARL PERFORM’X is able to process more than 60 samples per hour in a typical multi-element analysis case, offering rapid and precise analysis of up to 84 elements. The system also provides the highest standards of safety with an innovative sample recognition capability that ensures easy and safe loading of solids and liquids. In addition, the instrument offers unrivalled long-term stability and repeatability of results.
The ARL PERFORM’X comes as standard with the latest version of the Thermo Scientific OXSAS software. OXSAS is an easy-to-use software solution that improves productivity through its rapid and highly accurate reporting features. Users also benefit from a synoptic panel that mimics real-time operation and internal functioning of the instrument on a separate display screen enabling users to visually monitor the status of their analyses.
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MASS SPECTROMETRY & SPECTROSCOPY
Sizzling GCMS Summer Savings
Innovative Product Family of High Resolution Continuum Source AAS Analytik Jena AG launched its new atomic absorption spectrometer contrAA®
600. The device complements the contrAA®
product family and optimises the advantages of high-resolution continuum source atomic absorption spectrometry (HR-CS AAS) specifically for the graphite furnace technique. "With the development of the contrAA® portfolio with an important product. The graphite furnace device closes the gap between the contrAA® technology and the contrAA®
600 we have rounded out our contrAA® 300 for flame and hydride
700, which combines flame, hydride and graphite furnace technique", said Torsten Olschewski,
Head of the Business Unit Analytical Instrumentation. "In environmental and food analysis, for example, or in clinical chemistry the graphite furnace technique in combination with HR-CS AAS is the right choice, especially for the ultra trace analysis."
By using a special Xenon short arc lamp as continuous radiation source in combination with a high resolution Echelle spectrometer, the wavelength relevant for the atomic absorption becomes immediately available. Thanks to the combination of the two components the analysis graph and the total spectral environment can be recorded simultaneously. Additional benefits: The simultaneous background correction and significantly reduced detection limits increase the accuracy of the measured results. Using HR-CS AAS it is now also possible to analyse molecular bands and thus detect additional elements that cannot be analysed using standard AAS technology.
This summer Shimadzu UK is offering up to 25% savings on a complete GCMS system that is ready to produce high quality analytical results for a diverse range of laboratory applications, which cover R&D, academia, hospitals and general chemical manufacturing.
Shimadzu UK’s ‘Summer GCMS Package Deal’ features the Shimadzu QP2010SE GCMS plus a capillary column supported with a NIST library for a special price tag of only £30,000.
Another ‘Summer Deal’ sees Shimadzu’s QP2010 Ultra EI GCMS being offered for as little as £40,000 even though the system is fully equipped with a capillary column and benefits from NIST library support.
Both the QP2010SE and QP2010 Ultra EI are rugged GCMS systems offering reliable performance and featuring a dual filament with auto changeover, which ensure minimal data is lost during sample sequencing.
Extremely versatile, robust and easy to maintain, both systems enable front opening access to the source area. Simplifying maintenance still further, the systems are designed to ensure that the quadrupole analyser is not disturbed during source cleaning.
The high performance QP2010 Ultra EI, which is capable of rapidly pumping down to enable qualitative analysis within 10 to 15 minutes, also achieves industry leading fast scan rate of 20,000 amu/sec and offers the highest signal to noise performance of >500:1 for 1pg OFN.
The performance of both the QP2010SE and QP2010 Ultra EI systems can be easily enhanced with the addition of a direct sample inlet probe accessory that can heat up to 500°C and offers total software control.
To qualify for the ‘Summer GCMS Package Deal’ organisations need to place an order with Shimadzu UK for the Shimadzu QP2010SE system or Shimadzu’s QP2010 Ultra EI system before 30th September 2011.
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In combination with the direct solid analysis technique from Analytik Jena solid samples can be processed in the graphite furnace method without extensive sample preparation. This advantage saves much time and cost for users during their daily work. When using HydrEA technology - to detect hydride-forming elements - contrAA 600 achieves the best detection limits whilst simultaneously minimising matrix effects.
Circle no. 22 Double Beam Uv/Vis Spectrophotometer
Beijing Beifen-Ruili Analytical Instrument (Group) Co. Ltd recently released a new research grade double beam UV/VIS spectrophotometer, model UV-2200. It’s a double-monochromator instrument with PMT and silicon photodiode as the detectors, which ensures good analytical result in the entire range of 190-1100nm. It features ultra-low stray light, six-step variable bandwidth, and rich-function PC software. Built-in DNA/Protein module is convenient for direct DNA/Protein concentration measurement. Wide sample compartment accommodates cell size from 5mm to 100mm.
BFRL offers eight series of over 50 models of products, including atomic absorption spectrophotometers, atomic fluorescence spectrometers, FTIR spectrometers, UV/VIS spectrophotometers, optical emission spectrometers, microwave digestion system, gas chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography, all offered at a very competitive price.
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Triple Quadrupole LC/MS That’s Upgradable to Accommodate Future Needs
Agilent Technologies, Inc introduced the Agilent 6420 triple quadrupole liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) system, a new workhorse triple quad designed to be readily upgradable to the higher-performance 6430 and 6460 instruments as customer needs change. “Users want their instrument investments to be future-proof, which is why we’ve designed the 6420 Triple Quad LC/MS system with two levels of performance upgrades,” said Tim Schlabach, Agilent’s Senior LC/MS Product Manager. “We have also made it more productive, with faster electronics and new software features. Our popular dynamic MRM solution for grouping ion transitions by retention time has been enhanced with the addition of triggered MRM for simultaneous compound confirmation.”
The Agilent 6420 is well suited for both routine and complex analyses such as toxicology, environmental, food safety, pharmaceutical, and drugs of abuse testing. It is designed for round-the-clock operation to support labs running a large number of samples. The 6420 replaces Agilent’s popular Model 6410 triple quad. The 6420 maintains method and data compatibility with existing 6410 methods. The 6420 can be easily incorporated into high-productivity laboratories with multiple 6410 systems. The 6420 supports Agilent’s leading UHPLC solutions with all the benefits of a complete LC/MS system from a single vendor. Quieter mechanical pumps, now manufactured by Agilent, are original equipment. For users, this means a single point of contact for the instrument and all ancillary components.
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