Vote for Best New General Lab, Spectroscopy & Separations Products of 2018 in the Scientists’ Choice Awards
To help shape future technologies — and be in with a chance of winning a $500/£400/450 € Amazon Gift Card — cast your vote for the lab product which made the most difference to your work in 2018
17 Jan 2019
Scientists around the world are being encouraged to have their say on the best new general lab, spectroscopy & separations products of 2018 in the Scientists’ Choice Awards®.
The annual Scientists' Choice Awards celebrate the industry’s best and most effective technologies and give scientists the chance to recognize the instruments which have most accelerated their work. We had a fantastic response to our call for nominations, with scientists across the globe getting involved by naming their top new products of the past year. Now it’s time to cast your vote from the shortlists below.
The three winning products, which will be announced at Pittcon in March, will be recognized as having significantly advanced laboratory efforts in 2018. As a thank you for your time and insight, all scientists who vote will be entered into a drawing for the chance to win a $500/£400/450 € Amazon Gift Card.
Vote NowNominees for Best New General Lab Product of 2018 are:
- ViscoQC 100 rotational viscometer, from Anton Paar
- Centrifuge 5910 R, from Eppendorf
- TRACKMAN® Connected, from Gilson, Inc.
- T 25 easy clean digital disperser, from IKA Works, Inc.
- ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot, from INTEGRA Biosciences
- MILLI-Q® IQ 7003/7005 Ultrapure and Pure Lab Water Purification System, from MilliporeSigma, a business of Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany
- OT-2 pipetting robot, from Opentrons
- VIP ECO Natural Refrigerant -86°C Freezer, from PHCbi
Nominees for Best New Spectroscopy Product of 2018 are:
- Cary 3500 UV-Vis system, from Agilent Technologies
- QTRam® portable Raman system, from B&W Tek, Inc.
- INVENIO™ fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) research spectrometer, from Bruker Optik
- 4000 MiD miniaturized chip-based single quadrupole mass spectrometer, from Knauer
- QSight® 400 Series Triple Quad Mass Spectrometer, from PerkinElmer, Inc.
- Q-TOF LCMS-9030, from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc
- Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap ID-X™ Tribrid™ Mass Spectrometer, from Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Xevo TQ-GC Mass Spectrometry System, from Waters Corporation
- alpha300 Ri inverted Raman microscope, from WITec
Nominees for Best New Separations Product of 2018 are:
- Centri®, from Markes International Ltd
- bioZen HPLC/UHPLC columns, from Phenomenex
- Thermo Scientific™ Vanquish™ Duo UHPLC systems, from Thermo Fisher Scientific
- YMC-SEC MAB size exclusion chromatography columns, from YMC Europe
Voting closes on March 8, 2019. The winner will be announced during a special ceremony at Pittcon 2019 International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia, USA, on March 20, 2019.
About the Scientists’ Choice Awards®
SelectScience, the leading independent online resource for the global scientific community, began the Scientists’ Choice Awards in 2007 to enable scientists to voice their opinions on the best laboratory products. Once a year, SelectScience invites members to nominate and vote for their favorite products of the year in each category. Nominations in the other categories remain open, see the Scientists’ Choice Awards website for details.