Richard Bade of the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) within The University of Queensland (Australia) and colleagues have recently published a paper outlining the development and application of a new workflow utilizing the open-source platform InSpectra, aiming to complement targeted analysis and identify geographical spatial trends in wastewater samples across multiple countries. Bade spoke to LCGC International about their research paper and the work that inspired it.
Technical Articles: A Focus on Environmental Analysis
In celebration of Earth Day, we spotlight a few of our “Focus on Environmental Analysis” columns, which showcase how chromatography is being used in industry to bring about significant, positive change in environmental analysis and sustainability.
Inside the Laboratory: The Chromatography Laboratory at the University of Rouen
In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Pascal Cardinael and Valérie Agasse of the University of Rouen in Mont‑Saint-Aignan, France, discuss their laboratory’s work with miniaturizing gas chromatography (GC) columns and systems to improve on-site air analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
With green chemistry becoming a hot topic in chromatography, researchers from the Institute for Instrumental Analytics and Bioanalytics at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences examined gas chromatography–ion mobility spectrometry (GC–IMS) as a greener alternative to GC–MS.
Inside the Laboratory: The McLean Group at Vanderbilt University
April 16th 2024In this edition of "Inside the Laboratory," John A. McLean, the dean of graduate education and research at the College of Arts & Science of Vanderbilt University, discusses his laboratory's recent work regarding ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) and how it can be applied in various fields.