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Companies Sensors

Mettler-Toledo GmbH, Switzerland

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Xylem Analytics Germany Sales GmbH & Co. KG,

WTW - a xylem brand Founded in 1945, WTW has provided outstanding leadership in the design and production of superior quality water testing instrumentation. 2005 marks our 60th anniversary. Laboratory & Field Instrumentation We offer the world's most complete line of pH/ORP, D.O./ BOD more

Metrohm AG, Switzerland

Metrohm is a leading supplier of instruments, applications and support for chemical analysis. Headquartered in Switzerland, Metrohm serves customers in 120 countries. Metrohm is the global market leader in the fields of titration and voltammetry, and one of the leading innovators in ion chromatogra more

Products Sensors

Process Monitoring Made Easy – Keep Track with WiSensys

WiSensys is an easy to install wireless Data acquisition system with data logging capability more

High-Precision Temperature Measurement

MKT 50 is your high-precision thermometer for reference measurements, calibrations, and much more more

Handheld Oxygen Meter with Long-Term Logging and Large Choice of O2 Sensors

Versatile pocket oxygen meter with stand-alone long-term data logging for O2 measurements in gas, water and aqueous samples more

Catalogs Sensors

Products for Chemical Fluid Handling, Water Treatment and Water Disinfection

Find out more about innovations, commercial components and complete systems. It is divided into four product segments for fast and easy navigation more

Safe Extraction and Disposal of hazardous Fluids - in Laboratories and Production Facilities

Protect your Health and Environment - with Safety Solutions by S.C.A.T. Europe more

News Sensors

• ZEISS and Senorics Establish Partnership
  

  ZEISS’ investment in Senorics marks the start of a technology collaboration with the sensorics startup based in Dresden, Germany. The partnership aims to further the joint development of small and cost-effective sensors for industrial use in quality assurance and in process monitoring, e.g. on produ more

• Inspired by nature: Scientists have developed a nanopore-microchip
  

  Medical professionals and environment analysts would like to have microchips that measure substances directly on site. Scientists at TU Darmstadt have developed and patented a system based on nanopores with broad potential. Anyone wishing to use laboratory readings for diagnosing a disorder or its p more

• Measuring ethanol’s deadly twin
  

  ETH researchers have developed an inexpensive, handheld measuring device that can distinguish between methanol and potable alcohol. It offers a simple, quick method of detecting adulterated or contaminated alcoholic beverages and is able to diagnose methanol poisoning in exhaled breath. Methanol is more

Videos Sensors

Gas Chromatography with the Multidetek 2 - Multiple Channels, Multiple Processes, Multiple Detectors

MultiDetek 2 Compact Gas Chromatograph Designed for both industrial and laboratory use, MultiDetek 2 measures multiple trace impurities, with many configurations possible in the same instrument. Based on the new generation of LDetek’s Plasma Emission Detector, versions are also available featuring F more

Level Measurement with 80-GHz Radar Optimizes Plant Availability

Level measurement with 80-GHz radar optimizes plant availability Effective production facilities require highly efficient measurement technology. When measuring levels with radar, it‘s the dynamic range that leads to significantly greater efficiency. The larger the dynamic range, the wider the range more

Stretchable electronics that quadruple in length

EPFL researchers have developed conductive tracks that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original length. They could be used in artificial skin, connected clothing and on-body sensors. more

White papers Sensors

• Battling Corrosion in Refineries
  

  Corrosion in refinery operations has been, and still is, the subject of many studies, papers, courses and web forums. Although a lot of what has been written shows that significant progress in understanding corrosion has been made, it also makes it more

• pH Theory Guide
  

  The control and measurement of pH is vital in a wide range of processes across the pharmaceutical, chemical, and food & beverage industries more

• Intelligent Sensor Management – The Power of ISM
  

  For chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and all other process industries, maintaining high product quality more

Infographics Sensors

The Chemistry of Vehicle Emissions Reduction & The Volkswagen Scandal

Volkswagen have been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The company admitted to installing a ‘defeat device’ in millions of cars which made it appear in emissions tests that they emitted far lower levels of particular pollutants than they actually did in normal road conditions. Plenty of article more

Publications Sensors

• A fluorometric skin-interfaced microfluidic device and smartphone imaging module for in situ quantitative analysis of sweat chemistry

  The rich composition of solutes and metabolites in sweat and its relative ease of collection upon excretion from skin pores make this class of biofluid an attractive candidate for point of care analysis. Wearable technologies that combine electrochemical sensors with conventional or emerging semicon more

• 1,8-Diamidocarbazoles: an easily tuneable family of fluorescent anion sensors and transporters

  The synthesis, structure and anion recognition properties of an extensive, rationally designed series of bisamide derivatives of 1,8-diaminocarbazole and 1,8-diamino-3,6-dichlorocarbazole are described. Despite simple structures and the presence of only three hydrogen bond donors, such compounds are more

• Dual Responsive Salen-type Schiff Bases for the Effective Detection of L-Arginine via Static Quenching Mechanism.

  L-Arginine is one of the most important amino acid and plays a key role in diagnostic studies. Herein we report four Salen-type Schiff base fluorimetric/colorimetric sensors for the rapid detection of L-arginine. Substituents play a major role in the sensing mechanism of the probes with the nitro-su more

q&more articles Sensors

• Highly specific aptamers for analytics and therapeutics
  

  DNA and RNA aptamers are high-affinity, nucleotide-based binding molecules which, as an alternative to antibodies, are already being widely used in analytics, diagnostics and therapeutics. The generation of new aptamers and their industrial implementation opens up new potentials for a wide range of application areas. more

• Fit and healthy to 120
  

  I turned 63 recently. My secret to staying optimistic as you age towards your inevitable death? “The idea is to die young, but as late as humanly possible…” A noble aim, indeed… more

• How prepared are we for the digital transformation in the lab?
  

  Laboratory 4.0, the internet of things (IoT), big data, cloud computing or storage, blockchain, cybercrime, thingbots, predictive maintenance, artificial intelligence et al.: the thicket of buzzwords is getting denser almost by the day. They feature in just about every newspaper article about digitization and where IT is taking us. more

Authors Sensors

• Dr. Wolfgang Kaiser
  

  Wolfgang Kaiser studied physics at Technical University of Munich (TUM). On graduating, he then received a doctoral scholarship from IGSSE, TUM’s International Graduate School of Science and Engineering. His doctoral work at TUM’s Walter Schottky Institute focused on switch­able DNA layers and their more

• Céline Gesset
  

  graduated from Télécom SudParis in 2004 with a specialty in optics and high frequency sensors. She joined CEA in 2005 to developed new design of sensor. Since 2008, she is a staff member at the Diamond Sensors Laboratory, where her main research topic is based on the study of nanodiamonds for sensor more

• Dr. Jacques de Sanoit
  

  has been a research scientist at CEA and holds 35 years of experience. After 10 years of research and development in the field of nuclear fuel reprocessing and the radiochemical separation of the minor actinides, he spent 15 years at the Henri Becquerel National Laboratory (CEA-LIST) where he was in more