Educational
Teaching has a “new normal” mandating the balance of individual safety with academic achievement. Science and Chemistry education involves congregating in a laboratory or in a lecture hall which is not conducive to the rules of the day. This is why our hand-portable and self-contained high- performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC), the Axcend Focus LC®, is the perfect teaching tool. With everything you need built in to a portable LC system, the Axcend Focus LC minimizes exposure and ensures safety for the user, the instructor, and the students all while providing hands-on learning!
AFLC as a teaching tool
The American Chemical Society Handbook for Undergraduate Professional Education in Chemistry documents guidelines and evaluation procedures for bachelor degree programs. Specifically “The laboratory experience must include hands-on experience with modern instrumentation such as that listed in section 4.2.”
- Optical molecular spectroscopy (e.g., FT-IR, fluorescence, Raman, UV-Vis)
- Optical atomic spectroscopy (e.g., atomic absorption, ICP-atomic
- Mass spectrometry (e.g., MS, GC-MS, LC-MS)
- Chromatography and separations (e.g., GC, GPC, HPLC, ion chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, SEC)
- Electrochemistry (e.g., potentiometry, amperometry, coulometry, voltammetry)
Classroom Focused
Miniaturization of an HPLC enables analytical determination at the point-of-need, whether within a conventional laboratory setting, within a processing facility, or classroom and laboratory setting. Additionally, it addresses many of the challenges listed above by providing a fully self-contained compact and portable HPLC with capillary flow rates. The Axcend Focus LC® would satisfy the ACS requirements for an HPLC while providing a cost-effective chromatographic instrument. Challenges in providing instrumentation for modern analytical chemistry courses and undergraduate laboratories include:
- Instrument mobility, and Instrument accessibility and sharing
- Individualized assignments and projects requiring unique instrument methodologies
- Ease of use for both the operator and instructor
- Operating cost (solvent consumption) and Environmental impact
- Limited Bench Space
- Set up and equilibration time.
- Health and safety concerns with exposure to large solvent volumes and large groups of students gathering around instruments.
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