The Axcend Focus LC® is a breakthrough, fully portable, high-performance liquid chromatography system that can be hand-carried anywhere and used on-the-spot: within a laboratory, inside a glove box, on a scientist’s desk, on a manufacturing line, and even in the field.
The Axcend Focus LC® high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system is small enough to be easily placed near the sample source and powerful enough to be used in any state-of-the-art laboratory. It’s optimized for low solvent consumption, waste reduction, and energy conservation, and delivers the performance and reliability you need for the highest confidence in your daily results.
Compact, Lightweight and Powerful
The Axcend Focus LC weighs 17.6 pounds and operates at up to 10,000 psi. Reduced diameter columns improve sensitivity by reducing on-column sample dilution.
Take the Lab to the Sample™
Not only does the Axcend Focus LC deliver in the lab, it also works where other HPLC’s cannot – like inside a fume hood, in a glove box, or in the field.
Innovation that Improves Productivity
Experience the ease of instrument and method transfer with the Axcend Focus LC. And, it has the only commercially available cartridge-based z-type flow cell for enhanced sensitivity capillary LC UV-absorption.
Integration Is Easy
The award-winning design of the Axcend Focus LC includes low volume interfacing kits for connections to MS and photodiode array (PDA) UV detection. Axcend accessory equipment includes easy-to-use PDA and autosampler.
The Column Choice is Yours
The Axcend Focus LC operates using any standard capillary HPLC or UHPLC column so you can compare results to your
existing LC.
Efficient Control, Acquisition, and Reporting
Smooth control with AxcendDrive operating system software or drivers available for Agilent OpenLab CDS, Chemstation,
and DataApex Clarity.
The Most Environmentally Friendly HPLC
You’ll use under 10 mL per week of solvents and produce roughly the same amount of waste, and energy consumption is
a fraction of larger, bench-top LCs. Using the Green Chemistry Institute’s Greenness Score, compact HPLC is about 180
times more green than traditional LC systems.
Lowest Cost of Ownership
Not only is the instrument priced below most, it’s optimized for low solvent consumption, waste reduction and energy conservation. Customer costs for solvent and waste are about 1/1000th of analytical-scale systems, so the Axcend Focus LC
pays for itself in as little as two years.
Key Features:
- Integrated capillary columns, mobile phase and waste containers
- Microsyringe pumps
- LED light source for UV detection
- Cartridge system containing column, column oven and UV detector
- Tool-free installation
Benefits of the Axcend Focus LC® HPLC:
- Portable: 11% of the weight of a typical capillary HPLC system
- Very little space required: 36% of the footprint and 7% of the volume of a typical capillary HPLC system
- 500 to 1,000-fold reduction in solvent usage and waste disposal
- 90+% lower operating costs
- No need for large mobile phase and waste containers
- 186 times greener: using the Analytical Method Greenness Score, ACS Green Chemistry Institute
Specifications:
- Compact: ~30 x 20 x 20 cm
- Lightweight: ~8 kg
- Completely self-contained: battery, electronics, mobile phases, pumps, injection valve, column, UV detector, and waste collection (all integrated)
- Isocratic or binary gradient pumping system
- Up to 10,000 psi operating pressure
- Pump reservoir volume 140 μL
- Flow rates 0.5 – 10 μL/min (99.9997% displacement accuracy at 1 μL/min)
- Fused silica columns (5 – 25 cm length, 150 – 300 μm id, packed with 1.7 – 3.0 μm dp particles)
- Injection volumes 4 – 200 nL internal, < 5 μL in external loop
- High-intensity LED detectors Single or dual UV absorbers (235, 255, 275 nm) on column (LOD ~700 ppb on column, 1.2 mm flow cell 150 ppb)
- AC or battery powered (12.8 V/85 Ah Li-Fe-PO4 battery life – >10 hours without warm-up, ~8 hours with warm-up).
