How to extend the power of your UV-Vis spectrophotometer – a simple guide
Shimadzu UK has made selection of its flexible UV-Vis spectrophotometer accessories easy with a downloadable, quick read guide. Covering specialist features and industry specific applications by sample type across each accessory, in a concise bullet point format, the guide is designed to simplify your investigations into what might otherwise be a complex buying decision.
Whatever the core role of your spectrophotometer, most labs must seek to ensure their instruments are as efficient, effective, and productive as possible. UV-Vis spectrophotometer accessories and software add-ons offer enormous potential to both improve the performance of your instrument for one specific task and one specific sample type, or expand your lab’s application capabilities across solid and liquid sample testing.
The flexibility offered by accessorising can convert any high-quality new generation system, such as Shimadzu’s best-selling UV-1900i model, from a fully automated high throughput instrument capable of analysing pharmaceutical grade samples to a robust machine ready to take variable angle reflection measurements to quality check the plastic containers that will ensure the shelf life of those same pharmaceuticals.
"Spectrophotometers have come a long way in the past seventy years. Initially developed for the absorption measurement of liquid samples, the new generation instruments are now capable of high-precision, high-energy reflection and absorption measurements of solid samples" said Ralph Vokes, Senior Spectroscopy Specialist at SHIMADZU.
“Advances in software enable automation of high-sensitivity, high-speed sample measurements, while specialist accessories provide adaptations that can provide temperature control, auto-sampling, particulate and surface analysis,” continued Ralph Vokes
“These innovations make UV-Vis spectrophotometry increasingly accurate and useful across an ever widening range of industries and applications. While life science laboratories have been putting thermal-melting software and electrothermal accessories to good use in DNA and enzyme research for some time now, one of our more recent innovations will soon be available to help the renewable energy sector measure the performance of batteries and solar panels.”
As part of sustainable science and the circular economy there is a growing demand for responsible asset sharing, needed to ensure research laboratories maximise the economic benefits and impactful outcomes of all research equipment. Universities, collaborative industry, science parks and sites of innovation will all benefit from the ability to increase the flexibility and application of each and every instrument in their laboratories. So, a good understanding of how to adapt systems, such as UV-Vis spectrophotometers, using accessories and software will go a long way to assist this rising movement.
With so much choice, there is a growing challenge for laboratory managers to miss opportunities offered by innovation and emerging technologies. Understanding the difficulties created by a growing mountain of information, Shimadzu UK is doing all it can to keep its buying information as clear and concise as possible. This latest guide has been put together to enable you to cut through the noise and make a clear, qualified decision on which accessories will improve the performance and capabilities of your UV-Vis spectrophotometer and offer better sample testing to your entire research team.
Learn how to extend the power of your UV-Vis Spectrophotometer and make the most of your system; download your UV-Vis Accessories Guide now.