James L. Waters Symposium

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The James L. Waters Annual Symposium is a unique component of the Pittsburgh Conference Technical Program. Mr. Waters, founder of Waters Associates, Inc. and President of Waters Business Systems, Inc. proposed in 1989 that the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) offer an annual symposium exploring the origin, development, implementation, and commercialization of scientific instrumentation of established and major significance. The objective of the symposium is to recognize pioneers in the development of instrumentation by preserving the early history of the cooperation and important contributions of inventors, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and marketing organizations. 

The topic for the 2022 James L. Waters symposium is, “Supercritical Fluid Chromatography”.   SFC is an analytical technique performed with a mobile phase of carbon dioxide with or without polar modifiers and, capillary or packed columns. As such it offers some of the properties of both gas and liquid chromatography, viscosities similar to a gas, solvating properties as in a liquid. Pioneer speakers will detail SFC’s history, capillary and packed column applications, commercial applications, SFC/MS and recent advancements.

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