Silver award for one of the best new products on display at Pittcon 2005 goes to ESA for the Corona charged aerosol detector for HPLC
ESA has won the silver award at the 2005 Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition (Pittcon) for its breakthrough Corona charged aerosol detector for HPLC.
This prestigious award is given to the best new product introductions, as judged by the world's leading trade journalists attending the show.
The Corona charged aerosol detector offers all-in-one performance benefits that refractive index (RI), low wavelength (UV), evaporative light scattering (ELS), and chemiluminescence nitrogen (CLN) detector methods lack.
Its superior performance typically provides ten times the sensitivity of ELS, a broad dynamic detection range over four orders of magnitude, more consistent response factors independent of chemical structure and full gradient capability, delivering for the first time to the HPLC market almost complete universality, says ESA.
Reflecting upon the award, Walter DiGiusto, ESA president, commented "we are extremely grateful and tremendously excited to have gained this recognition".
He added "The award is very special because it comes from a group of editors who are attuned to the most recent advancements of technology and instrumentation in our industry.
"To be selected from so many competing products is indeed an honour and an affirmation that the Corona is indeed a truly universal detector that will greatly aid researchers and laboratories".
Charged aerosol detection is a robust HPLC detection technology that delivers advanced capabilities of interest to every HPLC user-lab.
The HPLC column eluent is nebulised and the resulting droplets are evaporated at ambient temperature producing analyse particles.
A second stream of gas is positively charged as it passes a high-voltage, platinum corona wire.
The charged gas collides with and transfers charges to the opposing stream of analyte particles.
A negatively charged, low-voltage ion trap removes high-mobility ions while analyte particles transfer their charge to a collector.
The charge transferred to the collector is in direct proportion to analyte mass.
