In Star Trek, Mr. Spock’s hand-held tricorder can instantly tell what something is made of. We don’t have tricorders yet, but we’re getting close. Portable devices just a little too big to hold in one ...

In the Fraunhofer PREPARE project PUMMEL, research teams at the Fraunhofer Institutes for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), for ...

Counterfeit or low-quality products—such as olive oil made from dyed rapeseed oil—are often difficult or impossible to ...

Analysts interested in quantifying volatile organic compounds like disinfection byproducts in liquid samples should consider using the gas chromatography system. There are two gas chromatography (GC) ...

Fraunhofer's innovative mobile gas chromatography system allows quick detection of volatile organic compounds, crucial for ...

Gas chromatography (GC) remains an indispensable analytical method for the separation, identification and quantification of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in diverse matrices. By utilising the ...

The wide range of chromatographic techniques share one common aim: to separate a material into its components. A material, your sample, is dissolved in a solvent, called the mobile phase. This mixture ...