Separations Products & Reviews

OPTI-GUARD® 1mm Biocompatible Guard Columns set the standard for extremely low impact, easy to use pre-column protection. Designed for use with analytical (4.6, 3.0 mm i.d.) and narrow-bore (2.1, 1.0 mm i.d.) columns, the patented floating stem design automatically adjusts to any manufacturer's tube stop depth for a zero-dead-volume connection every time. The best part? It's no larger than a standard fitting. Connecting the OP…

The OPTI-GUARD® 3 mm Columns maintains the tool-free connectivity of the OPTI-GUARD 1 mm, but incorporates a cartridge based format to allow for a larger bed with more capacity. The two-part holder is designed for use with any analytical column to provide vital protection from dirty samples and strongly retained contaminants. An auto-adjusting stem conforms to any tube stop depth for a perfect zero-dead-volume connections.Key…

OPTI-SEAL® Piston/Plunger Seals are the longest lasting seals on the market. Machined from either of two proprietary polymer blends, UHMW-PE or ITB, Optimize Seals provide the ultimate in high pressure sealing capacity. For mostly aqueous buffered mobile phases, OPTI-SEAL® UHMW-polyethylene is the wisest choice. Specially designed to be more resistant to abrasion and wear than standard polyethylene seals, they can last up to s…

Optimize realizes that your time is valuable and should not be wasted worrying about fittings. For this reason, all Opti-Lock Fittings are precision machined in the USA for optimal quality and thread consistency. The machining process is the best way to ensure tight manufacturing tolerances and minimal product variance. What does all this mean? It means that every fitting you purchase from Optimize will perform just as well as…

Optimize Back Pressure Regulators utilize an active mechanism to maintain steady back pressure across a range of mobile phase viscosities and flow rates. Placing one downstream from your detector will prevent solvent decompression and bubble formation in the flow cell, reducing baseline noise and drift. Each pre-set Optimize stainless steel Back Pressure Regulator offers a 100µL internal volume and includes fittings for immedi…

Optimize Replacement Pistons/Plungers are, by design, a consumable part of the HPLC pump and should be replaced on a regular preventative maintenance schedule. To maintain peak performance and avoid unplanned downtime, sapphire pistons require inspection every six months with yearly or as-needed replacement. Optimize sapphire pistons offer optimal concentricity and resistance to wear. Each sapphire rod is specifically cut in r…

The OPTI-LYNX™ Quick Connect Filters allow you to connect any 10-32 valve/port for trapping or analytical column for pre-column filtration. With OPTI-LYNX™, accessing and changing the insert takes only a quarter turn. Replace traps, filters or change configurations in seconds, without tools. OPTI-LYNX™ traps and filters (ordered separately) come in several bed volume/ diameter/ porosity combinations, allowing you to find your…

The OPTI-LYNX™ Quick Connect Trap Columns allow you to quick-connect to any 10-32 valve/port for trapping or analytical column for pre-column filtration. With OPTI-LYNX™, accessing and changing the insert takes only a quarter turn. Replace traps, filters or change configurations in seconds, without tools. OPTI-LYNX™ traps and filters (ordered separately) come in several bed volume/ diameter/ porosity combinations, allowing you…

The OPTI-LYNX™ QuickConnect Guard Column is a high-performance, cartridge-based guard system, suitable for use with any 10-32 analytical column due to its auto-adjusting ZDV port adapter. OPTI-LYNX™ combines effective column protection with the convenience of quick-connect operation. Some cartridge-based guard column products offer convenience with a price: higher internal volumes. Optimize Technologies, refuse to compromise p…

The Pippin Prep is a preparative electrophoresis platform for collection of size-selected DNA samples. The system automates DNA size selection using disposable, pre-cast agarose cassettes to extract fractions according to user-defined software input. Samples are electro-eluted from agarose and collected in buffer. The platform is used for the construction of next-gen sequencing libraries. The system collects fragments (depend…

The Pippin Link Group Control is the best way to reproducibly provide the highest quality size-selected DNA in high-throughput. It provides hardware and software for running up to eight Pippin Instruments from a laptop PC. Three linked-Pippins can produce up to 96 size selections in one day.

Soil and Water Modes • 72 position autosampler, with removable sample trays for 40 ml VOA Vials, 3 trays of 24 • Internal Standard addition (2 μl) (soil samples require water addition) • Automated water addition in 5 ml aliquots (requires 5 ml sample loop) • Soil heater to 80°C • Magnetic stirrer (3 speed control) • The chemically inert sample pathways are made of PEEK®, Stainless Steel, glass, or electroformed nickel • Comput…

Gerhardt has created a complete line of Soxtherm models, creating the ideal opportunity to have a state of the art lab for Extraction systems. One of the most impressive units in the line is the Soxtherm 416, capable of six extraction places capable of holding both small and large beakers. The unit is capable of nearly all analytical areas in fat determination and sample preparation specifically: milk, cereal, meat, oil, fruit…

The CambTEK Rapid Extraction System – A new approach to automated sample preparation of solid dosage forms for improved quality of data and productivity. CambTEK's Rapid Extraction System (RES) delivers a step-change in performance compared with the existing methods, and is achieved using robust technologies and an intelligent consumable. Utilizing non-invasive turbulent flow with the option of ultasonics the RES delivers many…

Disposable cuvettes for spectrophotometry, optical PS visible range cuvettes, UV Grade PMMA cuvettes. Standard and semi-micro disposable cuvettes for spectroscopy made of optical PS and PMMA UV grade optical windows to achieve optimal transmittance through spectral range from 340 to 800 nm (OPS) an from 280 to 800 nm (PMMA UV qrade). The engineering and quality control determine the reproducibility of the cuvettes. These are s…

Bruker’s innovative PIONA+™ Analyzer, based on the powerful 450-GC gas chromatograph, provides a highly flexible platform to obtain comprehensive characterization and quantitative information, including hydrocarbon group types, aromatics and oxygenates per carbon number for spark emission fuels. The system comes complete with ultra high performance columns and traps, CompassCDS™ chromatography data handling software and PIONA+…

High-efficiency separations at any pH The Hamilton PRP-C18 is a new HPLC column designed to provide high-efficiency, reversed-phase separations over an extended column life in nearly any mobile phase or pH. The rigid stationary phase has excellent mechanical and thermal stability (> 100°C), does not shrink or swell, and is completely inert to most conditions commonly encountered in reversed-phase chromatography. The PRP-C18 is…

You expect the fullest possible insight into your sample. compact delivers the highest quality of results without compromise. All specified performance parameters simultaneously delivered in a single run with no need for tuning or optimization is what makes compact unique. Full Sensitivity Resolution Having to choose between resolution and sensitivity on other instruments restricts depth to which you can understand your sample…

Agilent offers dispersive kits with sorbents and salts supplied in 2 or 15 mL centrifuge tubes to accommodate the aliquot volumes specified by current AOAC and EN methodologies.

Agilent's LC Dissolution Software is an add-on module to the ChemStation Edition of the OpenLAB Chromatography Data Systems. The software controls the analysis of dissolution samples and calculates final dissolution results. In combination with OpenLAB ECM or OpenLAB Data Store, all tools for 21 CFR Part 11 compliance such as access control, data security, data integrity, electronic signatures and archival are provided. Feat…

Rocket 4D Synergy is designed primarily to evaporate large sample volumes, with autofeed if required, allowing automatic evaporation of volumes up to 100 litres. Rocket 4D Synergy provides fast, safe evaporation for solvents with a boiling point of up to 165°C (DMF) and can easily dry aqueous samples. The system feeds the solution for evaporation to the evaporation vessel, controls temperature and pressure, prevents bumping…

Agilent AdvanceBio Peptide Mapping columns are designed to provide high-resolution peptide maps for protein identification and determination of post translation modifications. These columns provide the ability for you to quickly resolve and identify amino acid substitutions/modifications in a protein primary sequence.

ZORBAX RRHD 300-HILIC columns for glycopeptide analysis feature 1.8 µm particles and a 300Å pore size. These enable you to resolve peptide glycoforms.

The EXP Ti-lok Fitting features a two-stage locking mechanism ideal for PEEK-clad or sleeved fused silica, such as PEEKsil™ tubing. The two-stage fitting features a patented auto-adjusting titanium hybrid ferrule that seats in any port. The titanium collet locking mechanism provides a second grip point to even the pressure load over the tubing and not crush the silica. The incorporated rear collet locking mechanism is not remo…

High-Purity Acids, Always fresh to hand thanks to Subboiling. As rule, chemical prices increase exponentially as the chemical’s purity increases. Therefore, even where annual consumption is apparently minimal, high-purity acids can quickly become a significant cost factor for trace analysis laboratories. These costs can be avoided by the employment of a subboiling apparatus to produce high-purity acids from more economical…