The Open University is to host a new centre of excellence for chromatography, a technique used to help break down samples for analysis.
The Agilent Centre of Excellence in Comprehensive Chromatography will be hosted in the OU's Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute (PSSRI), where it will be used in space, environmental and medical diagnostic research, as well as being available to companies outside the university.
It will utilise capillary flow technology hardware developed by Agilent Technologies which will make it simpler and more cost-effective to analyse complex substances.
PSSRI's Dr Geraint Morgan, who is Centre Director of the Agilent Centre of Excellence in Comprehensive Chromatography, said: “Comprehensive chromatography is an important component of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial research at The Open University. The establishment of the Agilent Centre of Excellence provides our researchers with a unique opportunity to access world-leading technology and expertise, in addition to providing a vehicle for raising the profile of our research and analytical infrastructure with the analytical community.”
Sarah Corbin, UK Sales Manager, Agilent Technologies, said: “For more than ten years, multidimensional gas chromatography has been largely confined to the research laboratory, used only by skilled practitioners of gas chromatography. With reliable, easy-to-use hardware integrated in to the chromatograph, the technique is now ready for more routine laboratory settings.”
Anyone interested in the services provided by the new Centre should contact Science-Agilent-Centre@open.ac.uk
For the full story, with more technical information, see OU News.
Image shows a sample being prepared in a PSSRI clean room
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