Thermo unveils FT-IR spectrometer for QA/QC
targeted at quality control and assurance laboratories in the
pharmaceutical, chemical and polymer industries.
The Nicolet 380 is a new product in Thermo's Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer range - also comprising the Nicolet 4700, the Nicolet 6700, and Nicolet 8700 models, which debuted at last year's Pittcon exhibition. The company claims that the features of the unit will boost productivity in routine QA/QC.
Thermo said the Nicolet 380 uses provides plug-and-play sampling and a computer-based system to guide the user through the experiment. A comprehensive spectrometer qualification package is available to verify system performance in compliance with ISO and GLP/cGMP criteria.
In addition, a dynamically aligned interferometer helps ensure reproducible results, and integrated scan buttons on the spectrometer benchtop allow for easy operation of common FT-IR functions used in both industrial and academic laboratories.
The spectrometer is available for analysis in the far-, near-, and mid-IR regions and can also be configured with FT-IR microscopes. A real diamond ATR accessory can be easily installed to measure as low as 200 cm-1. In addition, it can also be used for thermogravimetric analyser (TGA) infrared analysis.
"The design of the Nicolet 380 allows users to achieve a wavelength precision of better than 0.01 cm-1 without using mathematical factors that alter data and are difficult to explain in a standard operating procedure (SOP)," said the company in a statement.
