Autosampler needle piercing a plate seal on a microplate
September 08, 2026

Needle clogging is a familiar troubleshooting issue in HPLC and LC-MS autosampling. Possible causes range from sample particulates and precipitated…

August 31, 2026

Microplates are widely used in life science, pharmaceutical, and analytical laboratories. However, solvent evaporation can compromise sample integrity, analytical accuracy,…

September 11, 2026

At a Glance In an undergraduate medicinal chemistry teaching laboratory at the University of Nottingham, Smart Evaporator™ was used to…

September 11, 2026

No single solvent evaporation method is ideal for every laboratory application. Rotary evaporators, nitrogen blowdown, centrifugal evaporators, freeze dryers, and…

July 21, 2026

Key Takeaway UCI researchers reduced a two-week purification workflow to 4–5 days using Smart Evaporator™. For water-based reactions and aqueous…

July 15, 2026

Solvent evaporation is a routine step in medicinal chemistry, but it can still create practical bottlenecks when laboratory teams need…

June 16, 2026

Evaporation is a common but still difficult laboratory step to fully automate. Although many systems now provide automated control, robotic…

July 09, 2026

Quick Answer: Centrifugal evaporation combines vacuum, heat, and centrifugal force to remove solvents from multiple samples simultaneously. It is useful…

July 02, 2026

Nitrogen blowdown evaporation is widely used in laboratories for small-volume sample preparation because it offers a simple setup and supports…

May 15, 2026

DMSO removal becomes difficult when extraction is not applicable and lyophilization is inefficient. See how a Purdue University case solved…

April 14, 2026

Nitrogen blowdown evaporation is a solvent removal method that uses a stream of dry nitrogen gas to accelerate evaporation at the…

April 10, 2026

DMF (N,N-Dimethylformamide) and DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide) are widely used solvents in organic chemistry because they dissolve difficult compounds and support…