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A team of physicists in Barcelona, Spain have for the first time fabricated and tested the world’s most sensitive Nanomechanical sensor, capable of detecting changes in mass of 1.7 yoctograms -- roughly the mass of a single proton. Team leader Professor Adrian Bachtold, of Catalan Institute of Technology’s Quantum NanoElectronics Group, and colleagues used the sensor, which is similar to a guitar string vibrating at very high frequencies (2 GHz), to compare the resonating frequency of...

UPLAND, Calif., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Instrument Technologies (AIT), a leading manufacturer of process analyzers for the refining, petrochemical, chemical, steel, biotechnology and emissions markets has renewed its ISO 9001:2008 certification. For AIT, the renewal of ISO 9001 certification, the most widely recognized international standard for quality management systems, was a priority in continuing their leadership position in process analytical instrumentation....

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Gatos Research (LGR), the leader in precision trace gas analyzers, has released a new Isotopic N2O Analyzer that is the first instrument to directly measure 18O and site-specific 15N ratios in trace nitrous oxide (N2O) in air, in addition to measuring the N2O mole fraction. Site-specific 15N refers to the ability to measure delta-15N ratios for both the alpha (delta-15N-alpha) and beta sites (delta-15N-beta) within the...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Los Gatos Research (LGR), the leader in precision trace gas and isotope analyzers, has introduced the world's first instrument to simultaneously and continuously provide all three stable isotope ratios (delta-13C, delta-17O, and delta-18O) for CO2, directly from ambient air samples with no pre-concentration required. With data sampling rates as fast as 10 Hz, the Triple Isotope CO2 Analyzer provides a real-time and...

ORLANDO, Fla., March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Waters Corporation (WAT: NYSE) was today awarded the prestigious 2012 Pittcon Editors' Gold Award for the new Waters® ACQUITY UPC(2)(TM) System as the best new product at the 2012 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110707/NE31586LOGO) Employing the principle of UltraPerformance Convergence Chromatography(TM) (UPC(2)), ACQUITY UPC(2) System expands the...

ORLANDO, Fla., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today drew back the curtain on several important new technologies and a new business venture at Pittcon 2012, the industry's most important annual new product conference and exhibition. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110707/NE31586LOGO ) Topping Waters technology introductions is Waters® ACQUITY UPC(2)(TM)( )System, a new category of separations science instrumentation that gives...

INDIANAPOLIS, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Prosolia and the Estate of the late Prof. John B. Fenn announced an exclusive license agreement providing Prosolia with new sample introduction and ionization technology using a porous "wick" for mass spectrometry and ion mobility systems. The 2002 Nobel Prize winner, Prof. Fenn, developed this new technology. Prof Fenn revolutionized mass spectrometry in the mid-1980s with electrospray ionization (ESI), which catalyzed explosive...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chemring Detection Systems (CDS) (http://www.chemringds.com), a Chemring Group PLC ("Chemring") subsidiary, is pleased to announce that it was awarded two strategic contracts for chemical detection. The awards were made by the Joint Project Manager for Nuclear Biological and Chemical Contamination Avoidance (JPM NBC CA) for the Multi Mission Multi Threat Detection (M3TD) project. "These important contracts help us to evaluate...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Gatos Research (LGR), the leader in precision trace gas analyzers, has introduced the world's first triple isotope analyzer for direct simultaneous measurement of delta-17O, delta-18O, and delta-2H ratios in liquid water and water vapor samples. The IWA-46EP is capable of automated, continuous or batch operation, and delivers isotopic sensitivity and precision comparable to reference isotope ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS)...

MILFORD, Mass., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) today recognized the Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil as a Waters Center of Innovation. The Thomson Laboratory, under the directorship of Dr. Marcos Eberlin, is the first mass spectrometry laboratory in Latin America to receive such a designation. (Logo:...