Agilent Technologies has introduced its next-generation Agilent 7100 capillary electrophoresis (CE) system.
The 7100 system requires 25 per cent less bench space, weighs 30 per cent less than its predecessor and uses less power.
The superior sensitivity is a result of a detector used in combination with extended light path capillaries or a high-sensitivity cell.
Agilent said that its 7100 is 10-20 times more sensitive than other CE instruments.
It offers a wide selection of detectors for flexibility and sensitivity, and the instrument is reverse compatible to the previous Agilent CE platform, so existing methods can continue to be used.
The instrument performs the full range of CE separation techniques, including capillary electrochromatography for fast separation of closely related compounds.
Its standard replenishment system provides high-throughput for unattended operation, and has been improved to use less buffer for the replenishment function.
The Agilent 7100 CE system was designed to enhance productivity, reliability and ease of use.
The rugged internal pressure system and improved capillary cooler supports higher currents and/or larger capillary diameters to increase throughput and also to enable a wider range of applications.
In addition, the system comes with a Chemstation software with a graphical user interface and an improved method setup that minimises start-up and training time.
The system's modular architecture allows fast access to electrodes, prepunchers, electronics and tubing to facilitate routine maintenance and servicing.
The quick-change, self-aligning capillary cartridge can be changed in seconds.
It is compatible with all commercially available capillaries.
The Agilent 7100 CE provides plug-and-play connectivity to Agilent mass spectrometers (MS), combining the short analysis time and high separation efficiency of CE with the molecular weight and structural information of MS.
These include the single quadrupole, time-of-flight, ion trap, triple quadrupole, ICP and quadrupole time-of-flight MS systems.