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Glovebox and Impurity Sensors
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2023
Source: Tamara M. Powers, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University The glovebox provides a straightforward means to handle air- and moisture-sensitive solids and liquids. The glovebox is what it sounds like: a box with gloves attached to one or more sides, which allows the user to perform manipulations within the glovebox under an inert atmosphere. For manipulations under inert atmospheres, chemists can choose between Schlenk or high-vacuum techniques and a glovebox. Schlenk and...
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Fabrication of Gate-tunable Graphene Devices for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies with Coulomb Impurities
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2015
This paper details the fabrication process of a gate-tunable graphene device, decorated with Coulomb impurities for scanning tunneling microscopy studies. Mapping the spatially dependent electronic structure of graphene in the presence of charged impurities unveils the unique behavior of its relativistic charge carriers in response to a local Coulomb potential.
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Pharmaceutical Alternatives: Excipients and Impurities-Related Therapeutic Nonequivalence
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2025
Pharmaceutical products contain more than just the active drug; they also contain various excipients such as binders, solubilizers, stabilizers, preservatives, and other elements. In some cases, impurities or contaminants might be present. Traditionally, quality control in pharmaceuticals has primarily focused on the analysis of the active drug, often overlooking the impact of these additional components. The recent issue with heparin contamination by over-sulfated chondroitin sulfate, a...
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Purifying the Impure: Sequencing Metagenomes and Metatranscriptomes from Complex Animal-associated Samples
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2014
Using the cystic fibrosis airway as an example, the manuscript presents a comprehensive workflow comprising a combination of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches to characterize the microbial and viral communities in animal-associated samples.
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3D Depth Profile Reconstruction of Segregated Impurities Using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
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2020
The presented method describes how to identify and solve measurement artifacts related to secondary ion mass spectrometry as well as obtain realistic 3D distributions of impurities/dopants in solid state materials.
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Impurities may function as reactants, catalysts, inhibitors, contaminants, or physical modifiers. These roles provide a framework for interpreting changes in reaction rate, stability, solubility, phase behavior, or analytical signals. Identifying the role helps connect an observed deviation to a chemical or physical influence rather than treating every impurity as equivalent.
That comparison establishes a reference for the material or reaction without the added substance and shows whether a measured change follows a particular impurity type or concentration. It also helps separate a genuine chemical or physical effect from measurement variation. The resulting contrast supports more reliable interpretation of changes in composition, properties, behavior, or analytical signals.
Useful observations include reaction rate, stability, solubility, phase behavior, and analytical signals. Together, these measurements show whether an impurity influences how quickly a reaction proceeds, how long a system remains unchanged, how material dissolves, how phases behave, or how the system appears analytically. Selecting among them connects the test to the property or behavior under investigation.
Begin with a purified system, then prepare samples containing defined impurity types or concentrations. Compare those samples with the purified reference and measure relevant changes in composition, properties, behavior, or analytical response. Interpreting the differences requires considering measurement variation, so the comparison can distinguish an impurity-associated effect from an apparent change caused by the analysis itself.
It can support quality control, formulation development, process optimization, environmental testing, and interpretation of unexpected research results. In quality control, it helps assess how unintended substances alter a material; in development or optimization, it informs how composition affects behavior. Environmental testing and research interpretation extend the approach to samples whose behavior does not match expectations.
An unexpected result may reflect an unrecognized contaminant or a deliberately introduced substance rather than a change in the intended chemistry alone. Comparing the purified system with impurity-containing samples provides a way to test that possibility. The findings can reveal whether the substance acts chemically, such as as a reactant, catalyst, or inhibitor, or physically by modifying the system's behavior.