IONICON News & Views

We support young researchers at two GRCs in 2012

The Gordon Research Conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, and their related technologies.

Two GRCs closely related to our own scientific research and PTR-MS are now supported by IONICON in order to give young researchers the opportunity to present their work to the scientific community.

These days the GRC for Plant Volatiles takes place in Ventura, CA, January 29 – February 3, 2012 and has as topics: Ecology, Biosynthesis, Regulation and Animal Perception of Floral and Vegetative Volatiles, Plus their Roles in Human Flavor and Agriculture.

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The focus of EU project LCAOS is the development of nano-sensors for medical breath analysis. Ionimed provides PTR-MS technology to complement the sensor information and develops a novel calibration device for sensor characterization.

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Technical Advances in Proton Transfer Reaction-Mass Spectrometry and New Fields of Application.

In 1998 IONICON was founded and we were able to sell the first commercial instrument. Since then, after years of dedicated research, passionate development and intensively working together with our partners and customers, we sold more than 200 units. Learn more on the recent advances of the PTR-MS technology, our products and their applications in an article with the title Technical Advances in Proton Transfer Reaction-Mass Spectrometry and New Fields of Application, published in American Laboratory (September 01, 2011) being available online.

IONICON N.A.S.E. is a heated device for the collection of nosespace air and direct introduction into the inlet of a PTR-MS system.

We listened to the feedback from our customers and developed a device for further improving our response time optimized heated PEEK inlet system, especially for PTR-MS users in food, flavor & fragrance science.

Substances of interest such as e.g. Vanillin are often very “sticky” and condensate on cold spots of an inlet system. Therefore we have engineered a solution overcome this issue.

Watch the video below to see how you can benefit from IONICON N.A.S.E.!

A new review article in Trends in Analytical Chemistry discusses direct-injection mass spectrometry for VOC analysis.

F. Biasioli, C. Yeretzian, T. D. Märk, J. Dewulf and H. Van Langenhove wrote an interesting review with the title “Direct-injection mass spectrometry adds the time dimension to (B)VOC analysis” that was recently published in Trends in Analytical Chemistry 30 (7) (2011).

We at IONICON are often asked what actually the differences and in our case, the benefits of the PTR-MS technology compared to other, similar methods are. Not only a technical comparison is of interest but also feedback from studies in the field covering various applications is in high demand by people contacting us.

For me the advantages of PTR-MS are obvious and I also know which position our technology and products have in the market, but of course it is more credible if an article in a peer-reviewed journal has such a comparison as topic and gives the reader a chance to follow a well grounded debate.
The synopsis of this article with regards to PTR-MS and my conclusion, I would summarize as follows only mentioning the most intriguing arguments:

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IONICON is teaming up with MARS Bioanalytical Pvt Ltd., a leading company in the field of Analytical, Biotech and Environmental instruments in India.

The common goal of this new cooperation is to offer the range of unique IONICON PTR-MS products to Indian customers and provide excellent local service and support handled by MARS with its head office in New Delhi and branch offices in Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai. MARS has a total strength of over 25 professionals to provide sales and service to its customers across India.

IONICON recently sold and delivered a High-Sensitivity PTR-MS system to the prestigious Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Mohali in Chandigarh.

We would like to give more scientists in India the possibility to conduct research with IONICON instruments in the near future and to achieve this, a local partner is essential.

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After several years of intense research in close collaboration international partners from both, medical research and biopharmaceutical companies, Ionimed Analytik has released an overview articel, summarizing this work.

This technical article Applications of PTR-MS in Medicine and Biotechnology has been published in American Laboratory (Tuesday, June 14, 2011) and is available online via this link.

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