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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.
SciAps & detectORE The Future of In-field Gold Analysis
SciAps XRF pairs with Portable PPB After several years of working with Portable PPB, SciAps, Inc. is now pleased to offer a fully integrated solution for our clients. SciAps X-505 has been optimized to meet Portable PPB's stringent requirements, and now has their endorsement to use their unique detectORE™ technique.
SciAps announces partnership with Emerling-Gase Motorsports for 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series
SciAps, Inc. is teaming up with Emerling-Gase Motorsports and NASCAR driver CJ McLaughlin for the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series.
Residential lead paint consulting with SciAps
For surface-by-surface testing of painted components, there’s no better option to identify the amount of lead present in painted or sealed surfaces than SciAps X-550 Pb lead paint analyzer. Lead-paint consultants can now evaluate potential lead hazards, including lead-based paint, lead dust (coming spring 2023), lead in water, and/or lead in soil without the oversight and costs of radioactive isotopes.
SciAps handhelds for cultural heritage research
Quantum RX, a SciAps distributor in France, recently assisted researchers with the handheld LIBS analysis featured in the latest issue of Contrôles Essais Mesures. This is just one in a series of emerging cultural heritage applications made possible by SciAps handheld LIBS.
Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Conference
The annual LIBS conference brings together the latest results and ideas demonstrating to LIBS fast-growing impact in science and technology. This gathering of researchers and users facilitates the exchange of information between fundamental research and applications, including invited presentations, topical lectures, permanent poster exhibitions, and social, informal discussions.
SciX
Read about emerging applications presented at SciX using the world's leading handheld LIBS, created by the people who helped write the book on portable spectroscopy and spectrometry. Click on our Independent Studies page to explore even more.
Sciaps visits The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch
A few months back, Dave Day received a phone call about a mystery happening in a remote part of Utah. As SciAps chief technology officer, he’s a curious guy, so he couldn’t pass up the opportunity of being part of a UFO investigation. Dave got on a plane, bringing the industry-leading X-550 handheld XRF with him so that the investigative team could analyze several mysterious pieces of material found there.
Chemistry is essential in a scrapyard
At ISRI this year, our good friend from Scrap University and Detroit Scrap Consulting Services Brad Rudover moderated a panel of speakers that discussed how current metals identification directly impacts profitability and the scrap business on a daily basis.
SciAps XRF now pairs with GERDA for automated sampling
SciAps, Inc., is pleased to announce that its popular handheld XRF analyzer is now available in a handleless version to be used in-line with the GERDA automated table sampler for portable and handheld analytical instruments. The new in-line analyzer is easy to mount and has more ruggedized connectors that are perfectly suited for pairing with an industrial system like GERDA.
Analyze and grade carbon in small parts on-site with handheld LIBS
A comprehensive material verification program includes testing weld wire, round bar, small bore pipe, and bolting. SciAps LIBS analyzers are designed to optimize access to such parts, providing a comprehensive, on-site solution for QA programs.
One Box for Environmental
Introducing three new analyzers for in-field environmental testing. Get true portability with SciAps — handheld XRF and LIBS for all 8 RCRA and 13 EPA Priority Pollutant Metals, even beryllium, in seconds, and the world's only lead paint analysis with no radioactive isotopes or replacement costs and HUD PCS at 3 action levels.
How it works: SciAps X-550 Pb for residential lead paint
SciAps X-550 Pb eliminates the regulatory, safety, and financial burden associated with radioactive sources in residential lead paint testing, with a HUD-published EPA Performance Characteristic Sheet showing no inconclusive tests at 1.0, 0.7, and 0.5 mg/cm2.
Press Release: SciAps XRF eliminates need for radioactive isotope in lead paint analysis
SciAps, Inc., is pleased to announce that the world’s only handheld XRF not using a radioactive isotope for residential lead paint detection has been accepted for use in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development “Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Housing,” 2012 Edition.
Want to take advantage of high aluminum prices? Here's what you need to know
Want to take advantage of high aluminum prices? Here's what you need to know about how to get that upgrade.
LIBS still works after fall — are you kidding?
You’ve heard about the XRF drop test from a 35-foot tower onto concrete. And about the XRF oops test with a 275-pound tool cabinet. Both analyzers still worked and cost little to repair. The newest success story in our “are you kidding me?” or “did I do that?” series comes from a SciAps customer using a classic Z-200 LIBS analyzer. This customer was testing aluminum when he slipped and fell with the analyzer still in his hand.
SciAps hLIBS is top five finalist for PPIM Innovation Award
Why did PPIM name SciAps LIBS a finalist for Innovation of the Year? Learn more about SciAps Z Series LIBS