Credit: Pittcon
For the first time in its 75-year history, Pittcon will visit the U.S. West Coast next week, Feb. 24-28, 2024. Being held at the San Diego Convention Center, Pittcon’s technical program comprises well over 1,100 sessions featuring the latest research and developments from an international assembly of top scientists and research pioneers. With six different tracks, including instrumentation and nanoscience, bioanalysis and life sciences, cannabis, environmental and more, there is a little something for everyone—regardless of industry and/or expertise.
Given the plethora of talent that convenes at Pittcon annually, it is also an ideal forum for manufacturers to show off their newest products, technologies and innovative solutions designed to make your research easier, more effective, most cost-efficient, etc. Check out a handful of these products below, and be sure to visit the respective booths if you will be in San Diego next week. Labcompare will also be there at Booth 832—please come say hello!
New products on display at Pittcon 2024:
SMZ-160 Stereo Microscope | Motic Instruments USA
Booth 1644
The SMZ-160 is a professional-quality stereo microscope for industrial and educational settings. The large zoom ratio of 6:1 and a standard working distance of 100mm provide the flexibility to support a large number of potential applications while the addition of an auxiliary lens or substitute eyepieces extend the magnification up to a maximum of 180X. Additional contrast methods such as polarization microscopy and darkfield microscopy are easily performed through the addition of optional accessories.
MiniFlex XpC | Rigaku
Booth 2616
Rigaku MiniFlex XpC is the right-sized, worry-free, scalable X-ray diffractometer for industrial process control. It is optimized to simplify everyday operations and minimize both the initial cost and the cost of ownership. The intuitive software interface keeps it simple. Rigaku’s unique compact X-ray source and large-area detector achieve fast and reliable measurements while requiring minimum maintenance. The MiniFlex XpC is scalable. You can start with a standalone configuration and later connect your MiniFlex XpC with a belt for fast and fully automated sample processing. The MiniFlex’s Xpress Connect allows fast and seamless integration into your existing automation process.
IV Ignite | Inorganic Ventures
Booth 3025
IV Ignite, an on-demand ICP training platform, reflects a significant leap in analytical science education. This dynamic space offers video courses, podcasts, downloadable resources, and live events, enabling chemists to enhance their skills, earn Professional Development Units (PDUs), and engage with a global community of ICP users.
FP 7 and FP 25 | KNF Neuberger, Inc.
Booth 2926
KNF further expands its Smooth Flow series, with the introduction of FP 7 and FP 25. These new liquid pumps deliver adjustable flow rates from 15 – 70 ml/min and 50 – 250 ml/min, respectively. Both pumps produce up to 1 bar (14.5 psi) pressure. High-pressure FP 1.7 and FP 25 versions achieve nominal pressures up to 6 bar (87 psi). The integrated, space-saving damper provides smooth, low pulsation flow that minimizes flow resistance, reduces vibration and noise, reduces liquid shear forces, prevents bubble formation, and reduces stress for longer pump and system component life. Other features include 4-point valves for reliable self-priming even at reduced motor speeds, and a digitally adjustable BLDC motor for precise pump control. Options include flow path materials, fitting connections, pump mounts, motors, and boxer configurations.
Diamond SureGro Cell and Tissue Culture Plastics | Globe Scientific
Booth 3018
Globe Scientific introduces Diamond SureGro Cell and Tissue Culture Plastics. Available in tissue culture (TC) treated options for adherent cell lines, and non-treated for suspension culture applications. The line includes flasks, dishes, and multiple well plates. Each format is offered in the range of growth surface sizes and volumes. All are produced from virgin USP Class VI resins in a Class 100,000 cleanroom. All are sterile, RNase and DNase free, and non-pyrogenic. Production quality is managed to ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 standards.
EcoDrive Vacuum Pumps | NAVAC Vacuum
Booth 905
NAVAC Vacuum’s EcoDrive Vacuum Pump series—so named for an energy-conserving “Eco Mode” that enhances sustainability while also tamping down operating noise—provides highly reliable performance for applications where eco-friendliness is emphasized. The pump’s highlights include an adjustable gas ballast valve, a forced oil circulation system, and an anti-suckback design. The series’ signature model, the ED16, delivers a 16 m3/h flowrate and an ultimate vacuum down to 4x10-3 mbar. A key feature for the EcoDrive series is the application of BLDC motor and control. In addition to its higher efficiency vs. conventional AC motors, BLDC is an inverter-driven DC motor, which can run at variable speeds, and its “Eco Mode” significantly reduces speed thus conserving energy while maintaining vacuum level.
PULVERISETTE 29 Mini Cutting Mill | FRITSCH
Booth 2524
The new PULVERISETTE 29 is the go-to solution for affordable, high-quality sample processing with homogeneous analytical fineness. This compact mill is perfect for small volumes of various materials, including biomass, grains, food pellets, seeds, and select plastics. It handles medium-hard, soft, brittle, tough, fibrous, tough-elastic, and temperature-sensitive materials efficiently. The PULVERISETTE 29 ensures integrity in moisture-sensitive samples, crucial for feed and raw material analysis. With adjustable sieve inserts ranging from 0.25 to 6 mm, the mill offers unparalleled flexibility. The adjustable speed from 500-6000 rpm allows for optimal cutting speed, tailoring the final fineness to your specific needs. The PULVERISETTE 29 can perform up to 48,000 cutting processes per minute with its hardened stainless-steel tools, minimizing heat creation.
NEX CG II Series| Applied Rigaku Technologies
Booth 2617
NEX CG II Series elemental analyzers provide excellent analytical sensitivity. They are powerful, second-generation benchtop energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometers for non-destructive elemental analysis of sodium to uranium in almost any matrix. They transform XRF technology with their unique close-coupled Cartesian Geometry optical kernel, making them ideal for measuring ultra-low and trace element concentrations up to high weight percent levels. Applications include testing agricultural soils and plant materials, analyzing finished animal feeds, measuring waste oils, environmental monitoring, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, analyzing trace heavy metals and rare earth elements, etc.
QGA 2.0 | Hiden Analytical
Booth 1037
The Hiden QGA 2.0, a next-generation quantitative gas analysis system, is designed for both academic and industrial researchers. This new system builds upon the solid foundation of our original QGA system, incorporating significant enhancements for improved performance and ease of use. The QGA 2.0 is lighter, more user-friendly, environmentally considerate, and packed with powerful features. With a compact design that reduces both its footprint and weight, this advanced model has been optimized for continuous analysis of gases and vapors in near atmospheric pressures. To suit diverse research demands, a range of inlet accessories are available, configurations are available for sampling from ambient to pressures as high as 30bar.
GC/ID Version 5.0 | Cerno Bioscience
Booth 2922
The GC/ID Version 5.0 validates and improves GC/MS Library Search. This software release is a significant technological advancement for GC/MS unknown identification and semi-quantification, offering a powerful market-first solution. GC/ID is a vendor-neutral software application that accelerates the unknown ID workflow and dramatically improves the confidence of results. Featuring many innovative technologies, including patented “Full Spectrum” deconvolution and a powerful “Composite Scoring” system combining Library Search, Retention Index, and Accurate Mass (on quadrupoles). This provides for more accurate and confident unknown identification over solutions relying solely on Library Search scores.
CRYO-FIB-SEM IB-Z200021CFS | JEOL
Booth 1923
This CRYO-FIB-SEM system incorporates a liquid nitrogen cooling stage and a cryocooled specimen transfer mechanism for frozen specimens, making it possible to prepare TEM specimens such as biopolymers. The specimen transfer mechanism has a built-in sputter coating function. Therefore, this CRYO-FIB-SEM system alone can perform a series of processes to create TEM specimens from frozen specimens including conductivity coating, protective film forming, and FIB processing. In addition, by using JEOL's CRYO ARM cartridge, direct specimen transfer to the CRYO ARM™ after TEM specimen preparation becomes easier.
Dotmatics Luma | Dotmatics
Booth 1910
Dotmatics Luma is a revolutionary new scientific data platform that helps scientists and administrators in life sciences unify and analyze large volumes of data for better decision-making. Luma provides customers an out of the box, low-code SaaS platform that flexibly aggregates all relevant data into intelligent data structures enabling clean, reliable data analysis and paving the way for meta-analysis and AI & ML-based algorithms.
2800T | HTA
Booth 1921
The 2800T is the first all-in-one autosampler on the market powered by AI capabilities—it can automate headspace analysis, liquid sample injection and SPME in any GC and GC-MS system. Integrated AI functionalities effectively contribute to streamline laboratory workflow and simplify sample processing. With 2800T, it takes only 5 minutes to switch between modalities and 5 minutes to move between GCs. In less than a 5-minute you can move HTA autosampler from one GC to another, swap HTA autosamplers or share HTA autosamplers among several GCs to face any workload peak.
Epsilon Xline | Malvern Panalytical
Booth 3116
The Epsilon Xline is a standalone solution that takes the laboratory precision of web and coating control in the battery and fuel cell industry right to the roll-to-roll production process. It has been custom-engineered to meet these needs by offering optimized production efficiency and cost-effectiveness in the fabrication of catalyst coated membranes. The instrument provides highly accurate materials monitoring and non-destructive in-line process control in the continuous fabrication of catalyst coated membranes.