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Sensitive and Strong Spectrofluorometer 
Scientific instrument companies saved their best products to introduce at Pittcon in early March. One such introduction is a more sensitive bench-top spectrofluorometer that offers sensitivity of at least 400,000 counts per second and a SNR of at least 3000:1. The FluoroMax-4 uses an ozone-free xenon arc lamp for coverage from the UV to near-IR.
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Superfast NIR Spectrometry
Another Pittcon debut was the Encoded Photometric Near Infrared (EP-NIR) analyzer. It covers a spectral range from 1375 nm to 2750 nm, with an ultrafast scan speed of 100 scans/second. The analyzer allows scientists to monitor processes in real time. The analyzer also includes an SMA standard fiberoptic interface.
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Widest Wavelength Polarimeter
Customizable and field-upgradable digital polarimeters are available with a preparative supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) or extraction (SFE) system. The modular system can provide large-scale preparative separations of multi-component samples. Using a collector, pure sample fractions can be obtained without interfering separation solvents. Options include polarizers, wavelength filters, lamps, and photomultiplier detectors.
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Ten-X Speeds from HPLC
An ultrafast liquid chromatograph offers both high-speed high performance liquid chromatography and high separation performance, with good repeatability. By combining the HPLC with reversed-phase columns, the system can attain speeds ten times faster than conventional HPLC systems. A high-speed sample injection mechanism significantly reduces total analytical cycle time.
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Raytek, Inc.
Fluke Ti30™ Thermal Imager
The Fluke Ti30™ thermal imager — everything needed for everyday imaging. An affordable thermal imager, from Raytek Corporation, specifically designed for predictive maintenance offering a complete imaging solution with the lowest cost of ownership. Includes powerful and flexible InsideIR software for data analysis, and professional thermography training course to accelerate return on investment.
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Keithley Instruments, Inc.
RF Test Instruments
Keithley Instruments, Inc., a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, introduces an innovative line of RF test instruments. With an unrivaled combination of high-performance, speed, flexibility, ease-of-use, and compact size, these instruments employ new approaches to test and measurement that enable users to save time, effort, and money.
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How the Gold Flies
Real-time Nano-microscopy was used to observe how gold atoms were incorporated into a gold surface. A high resolution electron microscope showed how a small group of atoms collectively sank into the underlying layer of atoms, created a surface dislocation, and then smoothed out. A Flash movie of the process is available from the researchers.
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3D Optical Microscopy
MRIs do it, X-ray tomography does it — so why can't we get 3D images from optical microscopy? A novel computational image-forming technique can produce crisp, three-dimensional images from blurry, out-of-focus optical microscopy data. Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM) performs high-speed, micron-scale, cross-sectional imaging of tissue without requiring sectioning.
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Glimmering Green Growth
Green fluorescent protein is a useful fluorescent tag for all sorts of animal tissue, derived from a jellyfish. But scientists are only now learning to use GFP with plants, which have tough cell walls; big subcellular structures that interfere with visualization, and green pigments that mask GFP fluorescence.
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Can You See UV?
The world's first miniature multiplexed capillary UV detector is designed to work with both liquid chromatography or capillary electrophoresis mass spectroscopy systems. It exploits capillaries as both sample cells and optical elements, providing inherent spatial separation of sample and reference beams and allowing a unique self-referencing system in a miniature format.
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Fischer Technology, Inc.
PHASCOPE® PMP10 DUPLEX
The PHASCOPE® PMP10 DUPLEX Coating Thickness Gauge was developed by Fischer for the measurement of lacquer coatings on both zinc-plated steel and zinc-plated aluminum. The automotive industry often requires the measurement of lacquer coating thicknesses on galvanized steel or on aluminum. Now, such measurements are simpler and more reliable using the handy PHASCOPE® PMP10 DUPLEX.
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TRUMPF Inc.
Pulsed Solid-State Lasers
Pulsed solid-state lasers from TRUMPF have been used in industrial production for decades. With their high pulse power, the laser units HL 204 P, HL 304 P, and HL 506 P are capable of simultaneous welding at several different locations. The weld point diameter can be adjusted by the processing optic at a constant working distance of between .004 in. and .08 in.
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Dice
A Better Job Search by Design
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Targeting Biology Technologies
 At its annual conference in mid-April, the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) will include sessions on new instrumentation and technologies, as well as target biology and screening strategies, automation solutions to compound management, high-throughput screening using native cells, and novel approaches to functional target validation. The conference runs April 15-19 in Montreal, Canada.
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Microscopes Across the Ages
The dawn of microscopy opened up entire new areas of science in the 17th century, and single-lens microscopes were cutting-edge scientific instruments for naturalists such as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Carl Linnaeus, and Charles Darwin. In Cambridge, MA, the MIT Museum is displaying early, portable microscopes through June.
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