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Article: Market profile: analytical ultracentrifuges.
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- Instrument Business Outlook
- Article date:
- February 28, 2005
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Although analytical ultracentrifugation has not been a beneficiary of breakthrough technology in recent years, the instrument has recently received increased attention from suppliers and end-users. The distinguishing element of ultracentrifuges from other centrifuges is the revolutions per minute (rpm) generated by the rotor. Any instrument that operates at 35,000-100,000 rpm is an ultracentrifuge.
Interest in proteomics by the biotech and pharmaceutical industries has resulted in a rise in popularity for ultracentrifugation. The analytical ultracentrifuge's ability to determine macromolecular thermodynamic properties and geometric properties, such as size, shape ...