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Going green in HPLC analysis

Written by Vesna Najdanovic
Analytical chemistry Careers and Publishing Events News Interviews

Vesna Najdanovic is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering and Physical Sciences at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) and is this year’s AstraZeneca CoSolve Sustainability winner, recieving $25,000 for her novel solution to organic solvent recycling for research and development applications. During a live pitching session at the European Laboratory Research and Innovation Group’s (ELRIG) Research and Innovation Conference (29–30 March 2023; Cambridgeshire, UK), Vesna pitched her idea of using ethyl lactate as an alternative solvent for high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis. At the ELRIG conference, each of the three finalists had 5 minutes to pitch their solution followed by 5...

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