B&W Tek, an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality Raman spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms, is proud to announce a groundbreaking fentanyl and heroin street narcotic identification update for their award-winning TacticID® handheld spectrometer with the release of TOS version 4.02 and library version 4.2. The TacticID system has the industry’s largest on-board […]

HORIBA Scientific, global leader in fluorescence spectroscopy systems and solutions, has announced the newest addition to the PTI QuantaMasterSeries: The PTI QuantaMaster 8000 spectrofluorometer. The new PTI QuantaMaster 8000 series offers the highest guaranteed sensitivity on the market, with a signal- to-noise ratio (SNR) of 30,000:1 RMS for water Raman, matched only by HORIBA’s own […]

Features Enables measurements of 0.01% or smaller quantum yield to generate singlet oxygen Enables direct, easy spectrum observations of singlet oxygen (1270 nm) Enables measurements in aqueous solution for biochemical or biomedical fields Enables measurements in non-deuterated solvents, previously difficult using conventional methods Uses a liquid-nitrogen-free cooling detector Allows fast measurement starts (only 10 minutes […]

Columbia, MD – Shimadzu Scientific Instruments announced the release of the LabSolutions IR thermal-damaged plastics library. The unique library contains infrared (IR) spectra data of 13 types of plastics, both unheated and damaged thermally at 200 to 400 degrees C. Many commercial libraries do not contain spectra for thermally damaged plastics, so this data is […]

San Francisco, CA – 6SensorLabs announced it has raised $9.2 million in Series A funding led by Foundry Group, with participation from Upfront Ventures, SoftTech VC, SK Ventures, Lemnos Labs, Mitch Kapor and Matt Rogers, founder of Nest. The company also announced that it will operate under its consumer-facing Nima brand to consolidate into a […]

Anton Paar USA, located in Ashland, Virginia announced that construction of a new 30,000 square foot office building is complete. The new structure adds a third office building to the current facilities. Growth is nothing new. In 2011, Anton Paar USA purchased 2.4 acres of land, along with office space adjacent to the previous main […]

Endress+Hauser issued a solid financial report for 2015. The measurement and automation engineering specialist was nevertheless unsatisfied with how the business developed. In local currencies, the Swiss-based Group experienced hardly any growth in net sales. Currency impacts additionally strained earnings. The Group increased consolidated sales by 6.5 percent to more than 2.1 billion euros. As […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. – Research scientists conducting a wide range of live cell imaging experiments can now access the next generation of a simple-to-use platform designed for a higher quality and fully automated experience making high-resolution fluorescence microscopy accessible to all laboratories. The new Invitrogen Evos FL Auto 2 Imaging System contains a number of new […]

Shimadzu Corporation announced the release of the AIM-9000 Infrared Microscope. Along with an industry best-in-class 30,000:1 S/N ratio, the instrument features an array of automated functionality, including the ability to automatically recognize up to 20 target measurement locations. The development concept for the instrument is to make the measurement of microscopic contaminants simple and automatic. […]