Four new elements are named!

Posted on: June 15, 2016

Back in January the IUPAC accepted the evidence indicating that four new elements had been produced, fleshing out the bottom row of the periodic table. They were given temporary names to start with (such as ununseptium – element 117), but the formal names have now been agreed! They aren’t any easier to pronounce though…

New Sampling Formats for DrySyn Heating Blocks

Posted on: June 3, 2016

Asynt has introduced new reaction inserts for its DrySyn Heating Block range enabling scientists to now conduct precisely controlled heated/stirred experiments with up to 27 parallel reactions.

GasTrao purification from Asynt

Self-Regenerating Purifier for Chromatography Gases

Posted on: May 23, 2016

Asynt has introduced GasTrap gas purifiers for analytical laboratories using Gas Chromatography (GC), High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) or Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) instrumentation.

Asynt and BioChromato at Analytica 2016

The buzz from Analytica 2016

Posted on: May 16, 2016

Asynt joined partners, BioChromato, and many of our distribution partners at Analytica, the international trade fair in Munich, Germany last week. We showed off the Smart Evaporator, the NEW DrySyn Spiral Evaporator and discussed the upcoming new products available from our catalogue soon!

Mary Rose freeze dryer blog

Freezing the Mary Rose

Posted on: May 16, 2016

Tall ship, the Mary Rose, was lost to the ocean depths in July, 1945. Amongst the traditional tools used to preserve her heritage were some innovative new ones too, such as the freeze dryer.

Asynt chemistry blog on baking

World Baking Day and the chemistry behind the cakes

Posted on: May 16, 2016

With what seems to be a celebrated day of the year for every occasion it would be remiss of us to ignore World Baking Day on Tuesday 17th May but we’ll look at it from the Chemists viewpoint!

A trick for the next Bond movie?

Posted on: May 13, 2016

With new inventions needed for the next James Bond movie, the Israeli team of researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science might have just the thing!

Sir Harry Kroto

Sir Harry Kroto – a learning experience

Posted on: May 13, 2016

The world of chemistry needs innovators and creators and I’m so glad to have learned more about Sir Harry Kroto, who would have absolutely met this criteria! Find out more about my discoveries here.

A Japanese adventure

Posted on: May 10, 2016

Martyn Fordham recently visited Asynt and Uniqsis partners in Japan with some very useful findings relating to chemistry laboratories there and how things differ from our experiences in the UK. He also discovered just how bad he is at Karaoke!