Ultrasonic Scientific, a pioneer in ultrasonic analytical instrument technology, will introduce its new high-resolution spectrometer, the HR-US 101, at Pittcon in New Orleans in March 2002
The new high resolution ultrasonic spectrometer offers advanced analytical capabilities for a broad range of applications, including chemistry, biotechnology, polymers, food and beverages, pharmaceutical science, medicine, and environmental control.
The technology behind the HR-US 101 is based on the measurement of the velocity and attenuation of high frequency acoustic waves (above 20kHz), propagating through test samples, allowing fast, non-destructive analysis.
Ultrasonic waves can travel through opaque systems, making the technique as equally applicable to optically transparent as to non-transparent samples.
The user-friendly new HR-US 101 spectrometer combines record precision across a broad measuring range with a wide variety of measuring regimes (kinetic, temperature ramp, automatic titration, flow-through, multi-frequency), with a small sample volume requirement.
According to Danny Pattyn, marketing and sales director at Ultrasonic Scientific, "although ultrasonic technology is well known for its applications in medical ultrasound and underwater sonar, its use in measuring the physical properties of substances has been held back by the complexity and limited resolution of instrumentation.
The market opportunities for our new high resolution instrument are huge".
Pattyn comments, "initially, there are applications in the pharmaceutical industry, such as the study of biopolymers and biocolloids, that we believe will be of interest to Pittcon attendees involved in this sector.
Studies that we have conducted on conformational changes of polymers, ligand binding and gel formation have produced data that would have been difficult, if not impossible, to achieve with current methods - analyses can be performed very quickly and easily." Using Ultrasonic Scientific's instrumentation, university collaborators have already generated dozens of research papers.
