New issue Shimadzu News 1/2015
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2015, Shimadzu celebrates its 140th anniversary: a success story The secrets of a Swiss watch Hidden danger »In our lab we R.E.A.C.H. the very secrets of matter« LCMS-8050 – Faster and more sensitive detection of mycotoxins in baby food From a “local workshop” to a global player

APPLICATION »It is the dose that makes the poison« New ICPE-9800 series Animal kingdom suffering from plastic wastes The secrets of a Swiss watch – »In our lab we R.E.A.C.H. the very secrets of matter« Testing wine bottles – Nondestructive quality control Coffee inspired not only science – Particle measurement using the SALD-2300 18 Hidden danger – Faster and more sensitive detection of mycotoxins in baby food 20 Biomass fuel: can algae make the wheels go round? – Monitoring of algae growth 22 Universal testing machine qualifies electronic components 28 High sensitivity meets robustness 30...

LATEST NEWS analysis, balances, biotechnology, material testing and medical technology make up a homogeneous yet versatile offering. Along with many “industry first” technologies and products Shimadzu has created and invented since 1875, there has also been the exceptional awarding of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Shimadzu engineer Koichi Tanaka for his outstanding contributions in the field of mass spectrometry. petrochemical and pharmaceutical industry, life sciences and biotech, cosmetics, semiconductor and nutrition industry as well as in the flavors and fragrances business....

»It is the dose that makes the poison« New ICPE-9800 series – Fast and reliable elemental analysis of drinking water ssential to life, drinking water is the most important nutrient source. For an adult, the daily drinking water requirement is approximately 2 - 3 liters per day. While in some regions in the world it is still very difficult to provide and guarantee safe drinking water supplies, the situation in Europe appears to be very good. The next step is therefore to determine the quality of drinking water and to comply with specific standards, as not all water is considered healthy or...

Limit value Detection limit 98/83/EG [μg/L] [μg/L] Plasma Detection limit [2] observation [μg/l] Aluminum Arsenic Boron Calcium Cadmium Chromium Copper Iron Mercury Potassium Magnesium Manganese Sodium Nickel Lead Antimony Selenium Axial Axial Radial Radial Axial Axial Axial Axial Axial Radial Radial Axial Radial Axial Axial Axial Axial Table 1: The elements and their limit values specified in 98/83/EC, as well as the required Figure 2: By Shimadzu’s ICPE solution software all calibration curves can be obtained easily detection limits of the analytical instruments. The detection limits...

Animal kingdom suffering from plastic wastes FTIR analysis of polymers in fulmars Figure 1: Dr. J.A. van Franeker during the workshop (2014) dissecting a young bird, Figure 2: Stomach content of a fulmar, including many polymer particles in various sizes whose stomach contents are shown in Figure 2 and appearances. For years this research has been carried out and recorded statistically by Dr. van Franeker. n the autumn of 2014, the ‘Fulmar Litter Monitoring’ workshop* organized by IMARES (Institute for Marine Resources & Ecosystem Studies) took place on the Dutch island of Texel. The...

applied/used, non-plastic and pollutant. Exact statistics for fulmars in the Netherlands from 2009 to 2013 were: 227 fulmars were examined, 94 % had plastic materials in their materials and their appearances can be measured non-destructively, including plastics from fulmar stomachs. When the FTIR system (IRAffinity-1S) is equipped with a single-reflectance ATR unit (Quest™), the sample can be mea- % birds with > 0.1 g plastic 100 % Figure 5: Comparison of the amount of plastic in a bird’s stomach (left, North Sea, mean 80 % value) with the extrapolated volume corresponding to the size of a...

Figure 7: Analysis of a thin foil using infrared spectroscopy and library identification. Figure 8: Library search of an infrared spectrum of a white fragment with rough surface. (False result). The material is not Nylon. Here, the correct polymer polypropylene was found. The additional bands can be assigned to protein and fat. and also stomach fat) are required (Figure 8). When combining the fat spectrum of the fulmar with the fish skin spectrum, the spectrum left is obtained. The second example shows a fragment with the description ‘white with rough surface.’ The library search has...

New milestone in ICP-OES technology ICPE-9800 spectrophotometer series reduces operating costs or more than 30 years, inductively coupled plasma (ICP) has been used commercially as an excitation source for optical emission spectrometers and has become an indispensable tool for daily routine applications. Since the introduction of the first sequential ICP-OES spectrometer ICPQ-100 in 1977, Shimadzu has been a driving force in technical innovation. The ICPS-8100, for instance, features exceptional light intensity while achieving high resolution. The optical systems with 1-meter monochromator...

Insights on molecular level iMScope TRIO with revolutionary technology Figure 1b: Overlay of the MS/MS image with the optical image The solid-state laser used for this purpose can scan the sample with a variable diameter of 5 to 200 μm. This results in a maximum resolution of the MS images of 5 μm which is currently the world’s best spatial resolution that can be achieved. The ionized molecules are subsequently analyzed using the integrated ion-trap time-of-flight (IT-TOF) mass spectrometer. The high-resolution system can also carry out MSn analyses which enables identification as well as...

gained from the comparison of an optical image with an MS image. A rat liver section was treated with quercetin and used for analysis. The MS image (Figure 1a) alone shows an apparently random uniform distribution of quercetin over the entire sample. After overlaying with the microscope image (Figure 1b), a correlation between the localization of the molecule and the structures within the investigated liver tissue can already be visualized. Magnification of the overlayed image (Figure 3) clearly shows that all the detected quercetin molecules are exclusively localized in the intracellular...