Laser Diffraction (LD), also known as static light scattering, has become the most widely used particle size analysis method in research and industry, and it has become the de facto standard for incoming and outgoing product quality control.
Since 1974, Microtrac is the first business to develop, manufacture, and market commercial LD analyzers, has been driving innovation ever since. SYNC, our newest LD particle size analyzer, will not only offer you reliable and reproducible LD results thanks to its proprietary Tri-Laser technology, but it will also allow you to perform both LD and imaging analysis on the same sample, in the same sample cell, at the same time.
There are several practices and parameters that should be part of the routine to ensure reliable results. We will explore some good practices in laser diffraction in this webinar. In addition, we will demonstrate the benefits of adding particle imaging to laser diffraction in both wet & dry analysis.
The topics covered will concentrate on the practical workflow of preparing and analyzing samples using SYNC, with measurement theories woven in.
Topics
- Wet & dry analysis
- Sample preparation
- SOP parameters and explanations
- Laser diffraction and imaging results
Presented by:
Kai Düffels has a Master's degree in Geoscience from the University of Stuttgart with a focus on geochemistry. He has more than 15 years of experience in particle analysis at Microtrac and predecessor organizations in Europe. Kai’s main expertise is dynamic image analysis and laser diffraction. At our site in Haan near Düsseldorf, Kai is responsible for the application laboratory, where we analyze more than 250 customer samples of different materials per year.
Jinyi Ge, PhD, Application Specialist at Microtrac (part of Verder Scientific), completed her postdoctoral research at Princeton University on waste/wastewater treatment and material characterization. During her PhD and postdoctoral years, she published 11 first-author and 8 co-author papers in American Chemical Society (ACS) and Elsevier journals. She is also an Associate Editor of Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems at Cambridge University Press, as well as an Editorial Board Member of Experimental Results at Cambridge University Press.