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Explore insights, applications, and stories from the field using handheld XRF, LIBS, VisNIR, and portable benchtop analyzers across scrap recycling, mining, geochemistry, forensics, and more.
PowerHouse X: The Groundbreaking Portable Benchtop XRF
SciAps PowerHouse X, with an 80kV miniature X-ray tube, can efficiently excite the K shell emission lines for both light and heavy REEs. By analyzing these high energy K-lines, the complicated spectral overlaps with common metals are avoided completely, yielding unprecedented limits of detection and better performance than any other portable XRF.
The next level for Geochemistry: The X-550 Geochem
The X-550 Geochem features an integrated fan that powers on when required to deliver high duty cycle operations in the hottest of climates. The X-550 Geochem offers three selectable, automated X-ray source settings.
Introducing the SciAps Z-70 LIBS Analyzer
SciAps has designed an economical, easy to use material ID LIBS that fits the needs of the market. The Z-70 utilizes many of the hardware advantages of SciAps high-end instruments in a rugged design. The outcome is a material ID LIBS that doesn’t sacrifice on performance.
SciAps Launches New Sales Office in China
SciAps long-standing presence in China is now official! SciAps is launching a new sales office in China, continuing the company's commitment to global expansion and innovation.
SciAps Partners with Scrap University
Join us as SciAps dives into the fast lane with Scrap University to revolutionize speed, accuracy, and understanding of recycled materials analysis. Catch Ellie from the children's book, The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans, zoom around Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, February 17th! CJ McLaughlin is teaming up with Scrap University Kids to spread the message that ALL metal can be recycled!
SciAps is moving to Andover
SciAps is moving to a 30,000 square foot, high-tech office and manufacturing space, relocating and expanding their Boston-based operations to Andover, MA from Woburn. SciAps, Inc. continues to expand globally as well. Two new sales offices are opening this year, one in India and the other in China.
SciAps is open for business in India
SciAps is thrilled to announce the launch of its new sales office in India, marking a pivotal step in the company's commitment to global expansion and innovation. With a focus on bringing cutting-edge XRF and LIBS technology directly to the Indian market, SciAps is poised to contribute to the growth in this region in multiple industries.
SciAps HH LIBS analyzer used to authenticate cheese and coffee beans
Independent Study: SciAps HH LIBS used in food authentication study in conjunction with Raman spectroscopy. The outcomes of the study indicate that the Hy-R-LIBS system, coupled with its chemometric strategies, might be employed for food authentication with promising results.
HH XRF X-200 analyzer used by Earth Sciences Foundation to study dinosaur bones
SciAps X-200 XRF is being used, both in the field and in multiple repositories, to analyze dinosaur bones. Thomas Hebert from Earth Sciences Foundation, Inc. is excited about the opportunity to use the SciAps XRF in his research and projects associated with the foundation.
SciAps is giving away alloy analyzers at ISRI golf outings
SciAps is giving away premier X-550 XRF alloy analyzers! Don't miss your chance at a SciAps-sponsored golf event. At designated events, score a hole-in-one, and win a brand new SciAps X-ray gun. Or get closest-to-the-pin, and win 4 pit passes to a NASCAR Xfinity Series race.
Chilean police bring out the big guns, aka SciAps X-550
SciAps X-550 was used in an investigation with the Chilean Investigations Police (PDI). They used the handheld XRF to recover an important patrimonial article that was stolen in 2015 from the Reliquary of the Holy Cross, an El Sagrario parish in the Plaza de Armas of Santiago.
Looking for lithium in all the wrong places?
Get rapid, in-field analysis with SciAps Z-9 Liquidator +Z-903 LIBS system SciAps is proud to announce the first portable LIBS-powered lithium brines analyzer, the Z-9 Liquidator. When combined with the Z-903 LIBS handheld analyzer, the Z-9 Liquidator test station provides fast and easy analysis of brines in the field, plant, or lab.
SciAps LIBS for Petrography with Gerard Moulzolf
Moulzolf, who grew up with geology as the son of a taconite miner, was lucky enough to get involved with American Engineering Testing just as they were putting together a world-class laboratory for petrography. One of the tools Moulzolf added to the laboratory was the SciAps Z-300 LIBS handheld elemental analyzer.
Kripke Guarantees Aluminum Shipments with SciAps LIBS
Kripke now utilizes the SciAps handheld LIBS analyzer to certify that aluminum products meet chemistry specifications critical for fine grade sorting.
Technical Note: Handheld LIBS Provides a Fast and Easy Method to Trace Gold
A new study published as a Technical Note in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS) demonstrates LIBS as a fast and easy method to trace gold provenance, a previously difficult but necessary task to ensure a responsible supply chain from deposit to consumer.
LIBS as an Emerging Analytical Tool for Mineral Exploration
A just-released publication in Minerals, in special issue Novel Methods and Applications for Mineral Exploration, the authors demonstrate how LIBS is ideally suited for field exploration programs that would benefit from rapid chemical analysis under ambient environmental conditions.