ABOUT ICON SCIENTIFIC
Icon Scientific, Inc. was founded in 1993 as a scientific instrument distribution company. Today, Icon Scientific not only distributes, but designs and manufacturers high quality HPLC instruments for research, quality control, process, and production. Our focus is on furnishing the scientific community with the highest quality liquid chromatography products available. Since 1999, Icon Scientific has promoted Knauer’s entire product line from analytical to preparative chromatography. A wide array of pumps, detectors, valves, autosamplers, degassers and software are available to build the optimal system.
Icon Scientific is excited to introduce the “ANSER”. The ANSER is the smallest full featured HPLC system in the world, both benchtop and field portable. Our latest field portable HPLC is designed specifically for cannabis and hemp analysis. It is ruggedized and highly precise and accurate. While analytical quality, it is simplified for non-chemists and non-chromatographers.
Over 40 years of liquid chromatography experience enables us to be expert in product application, configuration, and customer applications.
ICON provides highly technical customer support. We are available to answer any questions.
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ICON Scientific, inc. was founded in 1993, bringing the highest quality liquid chromatography products into the United States marketplace
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Icon Scientific, Inc. was founded in 1993 as a privately held woman-owned small business. Forty years of liquid chromatography experience enables our manufacturing company to be the expert in product capabilities, configuration and customer applications. Our team has extensive background in analytical HPLC, preparative HPLC and protein purification.
At Icon Scientific, we are passionate about supplying the scientific community with a broad range of the highest quality, miniaturized, German engineered liquid chromatography products. Our company distributes and manufacturers quality scientific instruments for numerous applications including all liquid chromatography requirements and flow-through detection of dissolved substances. Customized configurations and solutions can be designed to meet clients challenging needs and applications. ICON’s products include HPLC, UHPLC, FPLC, SMB, MCC, CCC and CPC for all aspects of research, development, process and academia. Full systems as well as individual components (HPLC pumps, UV/VIS detectors, valves, autosamplers, online degassers and software) are available and can be combined to configure optimal or custom HPLC, UHPLC or FPLC systems.Read More
ICON’s compact HPLC modules are optimal in laboratories with minimal bench space. ICON is committed to helping our customers find appropriate equipment and design configurations that meet their challenging laboratory requirements. We pride ourselves on our technical expertise and the customer relations that have enabled us to build long-term relationships with researchers and institutions across the country. ICON provides unsurpassed service and support.
ICON has been Knauer’s US distributor since 1999. We have promoted Knauer’s liquid chromatography products from analytical HPLC to preparative HPLC. Knauer GmbH has been the most successful German HPLC company. They are also family owned and have been in business for 56 years. ICON represents many niche HPLC products to augment the Knauer product line. ICON manufacturers the smallest, full featured, field portable, shoebox size UHPLC system in the world. The ANSER cannabis/hemp analyzer achieves the same performance as a full-size analytical laboratory HPLC, only it’s portable!
Liquid chromatography (LC) is an analytical technique that is predominantly used in life Sciences and organic chemistry. Liquid chromatography is a separation technique or process that is used to isolate individual components of a mixture. Once these mixtures are separated their components can be analyzed, using either high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) or fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC). Liquid chromatography is used to separate proteins, nucleic acids or small molecules in complex mixtures.
In liquid chromatography, molecules are separated in a liquid mobile phase using a solid stationary phase. This liquid mobile phase is what makes liquid chromatography different from other chromatographic methods, like gas chromatography. Liquid chromatography provides accurate quantitative and qualitative insight into the composition of a sample. Liquid chromatography can be used for analytical HPLC or preparative HPLC applications.
A solvent reservoir holds the solvent(s) or buffer(s). A high pressure HPLC pump is used to create an exact flow rate of the mobile phase. An injector which can either be an autosampler or a single sample injector is used to introduce the sample into the mobile phase which carries the sample into the HPLC column. The solid phase or stationary phase is inside the column. An HPLC detector, usually a UV/VIS detector, is used to see the separated components as they elute from the HPLC column. The signal from the UV detector is sent to the chromatography data station where it is captured and creates a chromatogram which is used for analysis. FPLC is different because it is a purification technique verses an analysis technique. An FPLC system is inert, pH and conductivity are typically monitored, and different columns are used.
ICON’s portable UHPLC is currently designed for cannabis/hemp purity as an application specific device. The same compact HPLC technology can be used to develop other analytical HPLC applications.
Counter Current Chromatography (CCC), and Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC) are two very similar techniques that are used primarily for purification of natural products including proteins, hemp and cannabis. This technique is different than traditional liquid chromatography because the stationary phase is liquid.
HPLC systems are commonly used, but there is a growing need for UHPLC and FPLC systems for specialized applications. At ICON Scientific, our company can help you manufacture and configure an optimal system for your liquid chromatography application.
We also offer:
HPLC Pumps – Every liquid chromatography system contains HPLC pump(s). The HPLC pump(s) are used to move the solvent through the column at a constant flow rate.
FPLC systems – FPLC is a liquid chromatography technique. FPLC is used to purify proteins.
Detectors used in liquid chromatography – Detectors are used in liquid chromatography. The most common detector used in liquid chromatography is a UV or UV/VIS detector.
Hemp potency analyzer – ICON offers a field portable hemp potency analyzer. Our hemp potency analyzer has the same performance as an analytical grade HPLC.
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