Newly installed instrument will enable team to research new applications for temperature programmed liquid chromatography and demonstrate this new chromatographic equipment
The Belgium-based Research Institute of Chromatography (RIC), has taken delivery of a Polaratherm oven from temperature programmed liquid chromatography (TPLC) specialist Selerity Technologies. The newly installed instrument, which has been CE approved, will enable Professor Sandra's team to research new applications for TPLC and demonstrate the benefits offered by this new chromatographic equipment to customers in Europe.
Selerity recently announced a partnership agreement with RIC whereby RIC would promote its range of TPLC solutions across continental Europe, including Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
In addition, the institute, a leader in research and training in modern separation science, is eager to develop and evaluate new methods with the Polaratherm as part of its ongoing programme to provide practical solutions to the latest analytical challenges.
The RIC team will further research and validate the characterisation of certain solutes in complex matrices using TPLC, total temperature control and preheating of the mobile phase.
This additional experimental work will complement work already carried out by Selerity and will help to improve the appeal of the Polaratherm to laboratories by ensuring continuous improvements made for better accuracy, precision, reproducibility and automation of analyses. Furthermore, Prof Sandra, founder and managing director of RIC, stated: "The Polaratherm will aid in the development of green methods to satisfy the requirements of pharmaceutical analytical science in the 21st century".
Selerity's Polaratherm is a high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) column compartment capable of controlling the temperature from sub zero to 200C benefiting from two modes of operation: temperature programming, and isothermal.
It is the first column compartment to allow and regulate high, ambient, low or dynamic temperatures for selectivity tuning and improved HPLC separations.
This equipment is applicable to most vendor HPLC systems, and can therefore be deployed in any laboratory already operating HPLC, at little additional cost.
Jody Clark, VP sales and marketing, Selerity Technologies, comments: "Our recent collaboration with RIC is instrumental in creating a network for the Polaratherm in Europe.
"With its total analytical solutions approach, it means that RIC gives even more credibility to the applications of TPLC, and ultimately to the efficiencies that can be gained by implementing new separation method development with thermal gradients."
