Axcend hoppes to release a portable liquid chromatograph that has a high sensitivity and is compatible with various web-enabled devices.
Brigham Young University (BYU) today launched a new spinout called Axcend to commercialise a scientific apparatus that can provide readouts across web-enabled phones and computers.
Axcend is developing a nano-flow liquid chromatograph product of the kind used by scientists to evaluate substances separated from each other following dissolution in a solvent.
The product, branded Axcend Focus, can output chromatograph results to phones, tablets or computers with an internet connection.
Axcend markets Focus as 100 times more sensitive than conventional liquid chromatographs and hopes to unveil a price for its product during the second quarter of 2018.
Focus is the result of research led by Milton Lee, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at BYU who is now chief scientific officer of Axcend.
Lee said: “Designing a powerful yet truly portable liquid chromatograph from the ground up required an entirely new mindset development-wise.
“Among other things, that meant moving to micrometre nano-flow internal diameter capillary columns filled with 1.7mm to 3mm fused silica particles.”
