Upgrades, Retrofits and Add-ins: Seeing Oxygen

When I was in College one of main complaints about graduate students was that they wasn't interested in self-employment or start their own bussiness. No one wanted to leave the bench and become a bussinessman.

This is much more common in other countries, I mean, someone start a bussiness witht the know-how he got in college. It was in this way with Craig Hamilton from HA Scientific and it's very similar with Dr. Paul L. Patterson from  http://www.det-gc.com/
He works with something I never saw any company dealing. Replacement ceramic beads for NPD that with combination with certain instrumental conditions can expand the analyte selectivity or modify it.

This is not a OEM product, they have a new technology that can be added to an existing GC detector.

The most interesting for me is the selective detection of oxygenates, you can see a chromatogram at left.

You also can find more information about the standard Nitrogen Phosphorus Detector on thins book chapter on Google books: