Features
ELNs Poised for Double Digit Growth
Eager to access any productivity-boosting information, many researchers have been eyeing, with renewed interest, the increasingly-capable electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs), which appear to hold the key for capturing and sharing enterprise-wide information once confined to individual notebooks. continue

The “Greening” of Oil and Grease Analysis
With the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, a new extraction solvent for the determination of oil and grease was needed to replace Freon. The EPA decided on n-hexane. However, SPE (Solid Phase Extraction), a relatively new technique permitted in EPA Method 1664A, is gaining in popularity.continue

Best Practices
UCLA’s Amir Liba Educates Through Communication and Diversity
UCLA researcher and lab director Amir Liba trains graduate students to use his lab’s equipment, oversees a staff of about 16 and processes an average of 300 different elemental analysis samples each month. For Liba, educating the next generation of researchers while preserving laboratory performance is a tricky task. continue

Innovations
Pressure Enhanced Solvent Extractors
Supercritical Fluids Technologies’ Timatic solid-liquid extractors combine multiple technologies to extract active constituents from biological and other materials. This extraction technique combines the use of solvents and pressure to provide superior yields and quality. Pittcon Booth 529. continue


Organized Science
Smart Software Tools Help Offload the Overload
Evaluate your emails in terms of benefit vs. distraction and then take advantage of Filters and Rules Wizard in Microsoft Outlook to automatically file and sort mail as it arrives. continue


Instrumentation, Systems, Equipment
Trap and Thermal Desorption Unit Delivers Highly Accurate Analysis
Airsense Analytics’ EDU3 trap and thermal desorption unit traps gaseous compounds on adsorption tubes and provides an enriched sample to a detector after thermal desorption. The detection limit can be enhanced by a factor of 10 to 1000, depending on sampling parameters and the target compounds. Pittcon Booth 2275. continue


Separations/Spectroscopy
Compact Illuminator Features Internal IR Source
Measuring 16” x 9” x 8”, MIDAC’s Illuminator M4500 is a compact FT-IR module that integrates with a variety of sample interfaces in virtually any configuration. Pittcon Booth 4372.continue


Chemicals & Supplies
Powder-Free Nitrile Gloves
Microflex’s UltraSense soft, comfortable nitrile gloves provide the durability desired in a non-latex glove. They form to the wearer’s hand like latex without the associated risks and have superior elasticity. Pittcon Booth 4821. continue