CellTec Systems GmbH

Dr. Marc Lehr, Head of Process Development
CellTec Systems GmbH

CellTec Systems GmbH conducts innovative research and development work in the field of industrial cell technology. Its activities focus on processes for mass propagation of animal cells for the production of food, diagnostics, test systems and other consumer goods. We purchased the device right at the beginning of our research work. The characterisation and analysis of our hydrogel systems, which we use as a 3D matrix for the cultivation of adherent growing cells in bioreactors is the most useful application we found in the Nanalysis benchtop NMR. It was primarily a question of price/performance, but also of low bench space, low maintenance and ease of use when we solidified Nanalysis 60PRO as our choice of the benchtop NMR spectrometer. The advantage of this in-house device is that we receive important data for our research, development and production departments directly and are not reliant on external service providers. This saves us a lot of time, makes our work very efficient and therefore more cost-effective.

FaradaIC Sensors GmbH

Dr. Ryan Guterman, CEO and Founder
FaradaIC Sensors GmbH

Our company specializes in chemistry for semiconductors, with a focus on microfabrication of our chips. We synthesize materials integrated into our chips during manufacturing, providing a unique gas-sensing capability unmatched by other technologies. Our expertise spans chemical synthesis, sensor design utilizing these materials, sensing algorithms, and chip manufacturing.

The Nanalysis benchtop 60e NMR is invaluable for monitoring reactions and understanding their progress. Previously, we collaborated with a chemistry department using a 400 MHz instrument, but acquiring our own benchtop NMR now addresses most of our needs. For more specialized requirements, we still access high-field instruments.

As a startup, cost-effectiveness was crucial in choosing the Nanalysis 60e. Compatibility with standard NMR tubes and techniques, especially proton and fluorine analysis, was also significant. Its ease of use and the excellent support from the sales representatives was a key factor.

The Nanalysis 60e has notably saved us time and increased project efficiency. It allows our chemists to quickly transition from bench to device, obtain measurements, and proceed to the next step within minutes, eliminating the need for time-consuming trips to universities. The customer service has been outstanding, ensuring smooth daily operations with the instrument.

Ventura College

Dr. Malia Rose-Seisa, Professor of Chemistry
Ventura College

At Ventura College, we've been using the Nanalysis benchtop NMR in our organic chemistry course for quite some time now, and it is a game-changer for our students. Not only does it provide them with an unparalleled hands-on experience, but it also helps them develop essential skills and better understand the instrument's function. Before incorporating the benchtop NMR in our labs, we had to rely on paper and online spectra. But now, our students get to run the instrument themselves, and that too, without any special permissions or travel to a separate facility. Thanks to the benchtop NMR, our students get to press the buttons, shim it to do the calibration, and analyze the results real-time. The best part is that the benchtop NMR is incredibly user-friendly, and our students intuitively understand how to navigate around it. They know which button to press to move on to the next screen, analyze the results, or make changes.

We also use IR spectrometers, melting point, boiling point chromatography and other characterization tests in our lab space. By using the benchtop NMR in our labs, we've seen an increase in our students' understanding of cross-disciplinary topics, such as the magnetic field and the function of the instrument. The benchtop NMR is very user-friendly, saves time and money, and provides valuable technical feedback. It's also located conveniently in our classroom, making it easily accessible to our students.

Another great feature of the benchtop NMR is its small size, which makes it easy to manage without requiring any special permissions or redesigning the lab space. It's located right in our old chem lab, so our students just have to walk over, put it in, and analyze the results. The customer service has been incredibly helpful and supportive, making it a pleasure to work with the benchtop NMR. Overall, we've seen an improvement in our students' learning outcomes since incorporating the benchtop NMR into our labs.

University of Groningen

Dr. Tjalling Canrinus, Lecturer
University of Groningen

In our lab, we used to have a 200 MHz NMR. The lab is used by first, second, and third-year students from various departments such as chemistry, chemical engineering, and pharmacy. However, the NMR room that we shared with the research groups was on the ground floor, while the lab was on the third floor. This meant that students had to walk up and down the stairs every day, and it was challenging to keep an eye on them. Additionally, we had to hire someone specifically to supervise the students while they used the NMR machine. During the pandemic, the room was not allowed to have more than two people at the same time, which made it difficult to accommodate the hundreds of students who used it. To solve this problem, we looked into getting a tabletop (benchtop) NMR. We purchased the Nanalysis tabletop (benchtop) NMR, which is now on the same floor as our lab, and it's actually next to my office. We have a Nanalysis room for the students where they can do IR and NMR. We use it for almost every single experiment that we find. It's suitable for first and second-year students who are not making complex structures, and it goes a lot faster than with the normal NMR. The original idea was to use the benchtop to check if the sample was good enough to go downstairs. This has helped a lot because students can now walk through the room, do a measurement that takes two minutes to run, instead of having to shim, lock, and start to measurements, wait for it 2 minutes before the 1st floor Spectra come in before you can actually see what you're looking at, and then find out that it's wrong. It has helped a lot with going faster. If you have 121 students, they all need to do a measurement at the same time. Then you will have starting queues, but generally, it sorts itself out so. they do everything from start to finish in one day. Regarding why we chose Nanalysis over other competitors, pricing was a significant factor. We tested it and found that it was good for our purposes. Additionally, the big green button was a selling point since it made it easy to use for students. Instead of going through complex menus, you just put in your sample, press the big green button, and you're good to go. It's also student-proof, which is a plus since we work with students. The Nanalysis tabletop (benchtop) NMR is perfect for our lab since it fits in the room and doesn't require a large surrounding. We use different solvents depending on the experiment. Overall, it has made a positive impact on our lab's workflow, and we highly recommend it to other labs that don't have the space for a full-sized NMR.

University of Toronto

Dr. Effie Sauer, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
University of Toronto

At the third-year (organic chemistry) level, students are analyzing directly the products that they make each lab, running and processing their own NMRs to evaluate the identity and purity of what they've made. Experiments often run over more than one lab session, so samples are run at various point in the lab - whenever the instrument is free, and the students' compounds are ready for analysis. In the second year, our classes are still quite large, so students are grouped together for working with the Benchtop NMR. To allow adequate processing time, groups submit their samples from the previous weeks' lab at the start of their next lab period. Once all groups have submitted, the autosampler is used to run between 12-20 samples. These are then processed by the course instructor and copies of spectra shared with each group. At the third year, we have ~ 50 students each running ~ 5-6 NMR samples each semester. At the second year, we have ~ 250 students, about half of which get to run one of their own samples over the course of a semester. Second year students did not have access to spectra of their own compounds. Sample spectra were provided to students - usually sourced from published spectral libraries. Third year students did have access to a research-grade NMR (400 MHz), however, limits on instrument time meant that typically just 1-2 samples per lab section could be run, so few students ever analyzed spectra of their own samples. Spectral analysis has always been a big part of our courses, so I don't think this has changed. What is different is students' enthusiasm (they really like getting to see what their own samples look like by NMR!), and their appreciation for what real (and often imperfect) spectra look like. They have a much better sense now for how solvent impurities or by-products can interfere with optimal results.

Velocity Incubator

Dr. Yuri Falcao, Lab and Operations Coordinator, Velocity Incubator

Velocity is a business incubator, funded by the University of Waterloo, that hosts multiple startup companies and helps them with mentors, advisors, office space, funding, and any other things a new business would need. We host 15 deep-tech startups and in total we have 60 or 70 startups. It’s amazing to see such a concentrated group of startups in one place in all sorts of different industries such as medical groups, biotech, chemistry companies, etc. We have a large range of companies in our lab so it’s pretty amazing.

I worked with NMR back in my previous job, in Brazil, and we had a 100 MHz as well as a 600 MHz spectrometer. They were huge, and it took a lot to operate them. They were old fashioned with lots of maintenance, and they both had such long procedures to make them work so the Nanalysis instrument is definitely so much faster. It works so much better, at least from an operational point of view, it works so easily. For startup companies it’s great because most of the time they are running around and developing a product. Since they are a startup, they have to meet timelines and they need to develop as fast as possible to impress investors. Having an instrument that doesn’t need any laborious preparation, just a simple preparation of the sample and clicking on the ‘GO’ to start the analysis, helps these companies a lot. Two of the companies at Velocity work a lot with the benchtop NMR and they only have good feedback about it. It’s so handy for them.

We have a range of different advisors: business advisors, technology advisors, lab advisors, etc. I do the coordination in the lab, and I instruct all the teams on how to use the instruments, including the benchtop NMR. We have two chemical groups that work with development of organic material. One of them is working with organic and inorganic complexes, and the other group is developing a polymer. The second group has a range of monomers that they need to test to make the best polymer for their application. They eventually apply this polymer in the textile industry, so they need to have that specific characteristic where the polymer needs to have a porosity and be hydrophilic. So, all sorts of different applications and characteristics depend on the monomer meaning that they need to immediately test each monomer that they are developing, and it’s so good to have an NMR that’s easy and accessible for that. The groups that use the benchtop NMR are mainly analyzing organic molecules and trying to check if their reaction actually went to the desired product so they can proceed with the next steps of the reaction or synthesis. If they actually achieve what they want, they verify this through the benchtop NMR. Of course, it’s not a 600 MHz NMR, it won’t give that much detail in its analysis, but they can definitely identify what they want. If they want something more specific, they can send the sample to the university but having the benchtop NMR in place and so fast that it takes about 5 minutes to put the sample in, get the result and say, “Okay today we got a good product, let’s keep the reaction and go to the next step”, or “no, let’s go back and fix it”.

Before benchtop NMR we didn’t have any NMR instruments, so we would send out the samples to the university. They have a 120 MHz and a 600 MHz, if I’m not mistaken. The groups would send out their samples to the University of Waterloo or even to the University of Toronto and this takes a lot of time. You need to send a sample, the courier needs to come pick it up, arrive to the university, send the sample to the department of chemistry and then the sample goes into a line of samples that will be analyzed by the lab technician. It takes a lot of time and there are so many steps just for testing a small sample. So, having the benchtop NMR that’s small, fits in the lab, low maintenance, and has easy operation, makes the biggest time difference. We don’t need the result to be so specific, but we need to get results fast and for startups this is crucial. Fast results are the main thing they need to prove that their product is good until they can go for the next investment round.

The first thing we liked [about the benchtop NMR] is definitely the easy operation. The instrument is so fast and it’s so easy to operate. The interface is a big thing as well. The fact that the instrument is a standalone and doesn’t need a computer. It already has all the features it needs packed into one small package! As well as the fact that it is benchtop and portable so I can carry it anywhere. This was such a huge thing because our lab is so compact, and we have many things in a small area so having an instrument that could fit anywhere helped a lot. I think these were the main features that made us decide. As well as the price point compared to traditional NMR. It’s a huge difference.

Nanalysis has a different approach that most traditional NMR companies don’t have of being user-friendly and I love that because most of us chemists aren’t programmers. We are not problem-solvers for the software point of view, we are problem-solvers for the chemical point of view so it’s easy for us to understand the chemistry and what’s going on. But once the instrument stops working, we need a technician. When I had to do the cleanup of the benchtop NMR, I set up a meeting with one of the Nanalysis technicians and it was so fast. He instructed me on how to clean the instrument, how to operate the instrument, and he said, “flip the instrument all the way to the back”, and I replied, “It’s an NMR, are you sure?”. He said, “Oh do it and take the filter out”, so it’s just so great to have such a close contact with a technician. I also had instruments in Brazil that needed a technician and to talk to one I would have needed to pay for their hotel and flight to come to my city, as well as pay them by the hour so the bill racks up quite a bit. That’s why having a technician readily available with Nanalysis is so nice!

At Velocity, because we have so many companies that use the benchtop NMR, the value is totally worth it. We have so many companies that wouldn’t have these resources and wouldn’t be able to afford having an NMR on their own so having a benchtop NMR on our side definitely helps. It is such an incredible tool, along with many other instruments that we have.

Before I knew about your instrument, I didn’t see anything that is as accessible and easy to operate and is accessible for small companies. Since they don’t have tens of millions, they have perhaps a million or a couple of million that they need to use to pay staff, buy reactants, and maintain the company, so it’s really hard for them to allocate a static investment to an instrument that won’t return profits, at least not in the same way that an employee would return them. So, to have this and be able to help these companies is so great! It’s a tool that’s magical for them because it just works, and it works fast because these companies are very chemistry intensive. They might have helium for example, one of them is developing a screen that changes color with a very complex process where they have so many different areas to develop and each of these organic molecules that would change the color depending on the current status applied. It’s such an intensive chemistry related project and having a benchtop NMR helps a lot. I would say that these are some of the companies that if they outgrow their own space in Velocity, they will definitely be reaching out to Nanalysis to purchase their own instrument or to know more about the benchtop NMR. I think that a lot of startups, when they are in a more mature stage, they will take a great advantage of not relying on a big institution that will take 1 week to give them the result.

I like the easy-to-use interface and I like the fast forward. I would definitely try to implement more analytical tools like other traditional NMR instruments. I’ve seen another traditional NMR that had more of a research mode. I come from research labs, and I know that some of our teams would like to dive deeper into tests and this is why they sometimes send their samples to the university to get more analytical reports. So even though the capacity and procedure of the instrument cannot be compared to a research-grade instrument of 120 MHz or 600 MHz, it would be nice to have the tools to get at least the same approach on the results as I would with other instruments. Other than that, everything is so fine-tuned in the Nanalysis benchtop NMR that I wouldn’t do anything else.

E-One Moli Energy (Canada) Ltd.

Dr. Scott R. Smith, Research Scientist
E-One Moli Energy (Canada) Ltd.

At E-One Moli Energy (Canada) Ltd. we are a research and development facility studying Li-ion batteries for more than 40 years. The 60 MHz benchtop NMR from Nanalysis has unlocked a whole new avenue for our research by providing quick and reliable characterization of electrolytes and their individual components so that they become optimized for cell performance and stability.

Specifically, the benchtop NMR instrument has allowed us to simultaneously characterize how multiple electrolyte components interact with each other over time to achieve better cell performance and ensure long-term electrolyte stability. We have found that benchtop NMR is a quick and reliable method to screen for electrolyte degradation and how we might be able to minimize those issues. The simple and user-friendly operation coupled with the benchtop NMR’s applicability to a wide range of projects has allowed many in the Research and Development team to utilize the instrument to complement their work. Even users with little to no previous experience running NMR instruments have found the Nanalysis instrument very user-friendly.

The benchtop NMR has really been a complimentary piece for us that has expanded our capabilities in characterizing electrolyte components allowing us to understand why specific electrolyte interactions lead to better/worse stability. Mainly, it allows for quicker pre-screening of electrolyte properties prior to cell assembling without month-long waiting for cell testing results.

Unfortunately, I was not part of process of surveying different benchtop NMR instruments when we purchased this instrument. But I have raved about quick and thorough customer support that I have experienced from Nanalysis to other potential benchtop NMR buyers. It has been the fastest and most helpful guidance that I received from any instrument provider that I have experienced.

Cell testing requires a high demand for expensive battery cyclers, numerous personnel, equipment, and resources. The more electrolyte components and mixtures that we can pre-screen prior to elevating our research into the cell performance testing stage the better. Research results from cells can take several months to obtain, whereas screening the electrolyte combinations prior to cell assembly can be completed by a single employee within a few days and requires minimal resources with the benchtop NMR.

University of Alberta

Dr. Arno de Klerk, Professor, Chemical & Materials Engineering Nexen Professor of Catalytic Reaction Engineering, University of Alberta

Dr. Arno de Klerk's research interests include the upgrading/refining of alternative carbon sources to fuels and chemicals. Alternative feed materials (non-crude oil) that are considered include oil sands, coal, Fisher-Tropsch syncrude, biomass and waste materials. Central themes that are of interest are oxygenate conversion processes, catalysis and reactor engineering and refinery design.

“We got the Nanalysis benchtop NMR many years ago for our chemical engineering lab, probably one of your first instruments. We are a group of researchers and engineers that study the conversion processes of fuels. Over the years we have done work for oil sands bitumen, coal conversion, and heavy carbon materials. As well as bio-waste and organic waste more recently.

Benchtop NMR provides a hands-on approach for our research graduate students. It is a tool for frontline analysis. The instrument allows us to be self-sufficient without sending our samples outside and waiting a couple of days to get the results. I know how students work; if they have to wait for a couple of days, it may lead to missed opportunities and information. So having the benchtop NMR in the lab is fantastic, and we can use it as a learning instrument. The operation cost is almost nothing after your initial investment, then all you have to buy is the deuterated solvents, NMR tubes, and that's about it.

In some cases, we identify samples that could benefit from the higher resolution or better sensitivity; we would send them to the Chemistry Department. We usually deal with mixtures and don't have a problem with the resolution, so for integration purposes 60 MHz is better for us than 600 MHz.

For sure, the benchtop NMR adds value to the students. I can look every student in the eye and ask them where the NMR data is, and by providing them with those tools, they get into the habit of using them. And, of course, we are gaining valuable information for the graduate research students. You can find our published articles and often seen data using benchtop NMR.”

Prairie View A&M University

Dr. Matt Minus, Assistant Professor,
Prairie View A&M University

Dr. Matt Minus is an assistant professor teaching organic and inorganic chemistry at Prairie View A&M University. He highlights the importance of student engagement and building hands-on in the lab thanks to their new 60 MHz benchtop NMR.

“Nanalysis definitely exceeds expectations, and they were already high to begin with. To me, I think that we’re definitely happy with it. I think it’s ground-breaking technology.

We’re an undergraduate university, primarily, and we do some lab work. I find it’s so much faster and easier to just screen reactions with the benchtop versus going to the big NMR and stepping on a ladder and chilling (the probe) with nitrogen. It’s just so much maintenance for a smaller school that doesn’t have an “NMRguy”. I think it really makes NMR accessible to schools like mine. The organic lab might have about 20 students, and then lectures are probably close to 40 or 50, but the campus alone has about 10,000 students. So, it’s a decent-sized school.

You literally just walk up, put it in, and it shows you on the screen. When I started NMR, you would go up to this big thing, and you match and tune (the probe), and you put it in there, and the air has to be on, and if you forget the sample holder, it falls and breaks the probe… To go from that to just ‘put it in, press go’, it’s like alright well, times have changed.

Half the time the NMR was down because helium is expensive, it has to be cooled by the nitrogen, if a storm comes and nobody can take care of everything, then basically the NMR goes down. We have to spend all of this money to get it back together. One or two of those refills, we could have just bought a benchtop. For what we need, we are by enough schools that have a 500 MHz or a 600 MHz, so let them deal with the headache of maintenance. But I know that I can have what I need, or that I have the molecule made right there in the lab in 2 or 3 minutes.

When I was (a graduate TA) at Rice University, we would take the NMR samples for the undergraduates. I think a lot of them (schools) would be surprised at how much better it would be to incorporate [benchtop NMR] into their teaching labs. If they had the benchtop, they (the undergraduates students) could do the foundation of organic characterization right there in the lab. I think for the price point, the educational value that the students get from that, seeing the spectra, being able to put in the thumb drive, download it, and add it to their report, I think that’s really unbelievable. We’re so used to this big clunky NMR, and it’s really hard for us to even fathom what the technology means.

We have a 400 MHz NMR, variant. Spectrum wise, honestly, it’s sharper but not by much. Just looking at the spectrum, to compare half a million dollars to $40,000, it’s not worth the $450,000 difference. The biggest thing for me is maintenance and accessibility. If you want to train undergraduates to go use a high-field NMR instrument there’s about 7 or 8 things that can go wrong. They can really cost you up to $100,000 dollars. If you teach an undergraduate on the Nanalysis instrument, maybe 1 or 2 things can go wrong, and it won’t cost that level of money. It’s pretty fool-proof, but even if they broke the whole instrument it would still be cheaper than one NMR repair. The NMR high field has this very long tube, and the air is going up, and if you don’t activate the air, you break the probe… That common accident or even mistake is no longer even an issue with the benchtop. If you’re dealing with undergraduates, in a smaller department, you really can’t afford to have those types of mistakes happen on your high-field instrument. I think it’s just the convenience. There’s not much of a difference in spectra to the point where I can’t determine without the high-field instrument. To me (for basic characterization) the only reason I would go back to the high-field is if a publication said ‘hey we want to see a spectra from 400 MHz plus’. That’s really the only reason I would ever consider doing the more time-consuming complicated experiment.

I really hope that people catch on to the technology. I would love for Nanalysis to be able to continue to service the chemistry world with what they’re offering because it really does change educational and research chemistry at the undergraduate level. Even for some smaller graduate schools, if I’m in an organic synthesis lab and instead of having someone run to the NMR back and forth, back and forth, just get one of these and let them take it on their own bench. It’s just way faster. I really appreciate the technology, and it’s been very helpful for me.”

University of Waterloo

Dr. Nekkar Rao, Associate Professor
School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo

Dr. Nekkar Rao specializes in medicinal and bioorganic chemistry; exploring rational drug design aided by molecular modelling techniques and small molecule synthetic organic/medicinal chemistry.

His work includes method development; solid phase peptide synthesis of bioactive peptides / peptidomimics; modern analytical techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy and high performance liquid chromatography; and development of high-throughput biochemical screening protocols to discover lead candidates.

Nebraska Wesleyan University

Dr. Mark Werth, Professor, Department of Chemistry
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Dr. Mark Werth and the staff at Nebraska Wesleyan University purchased an NMReady-60PRO in 2017 to support their organic and inorganic chemistry program. They have found that the instrument fits well into their brand new laboratory space, and it’s lack of maintenance requirements in both time and money make it instrumental in their program!!

Southwestern College

Dr. Michael Tessmer, Professor, Department of Chemistry
Southwestern College

Dr. Michael Tessmer is a Professor of Chemistry at Southwestern College. He always tries to stress the practical aspects of course material, along with getting students involved in their learning.

"The new NMR has helped our students very much and provided good value. We are utilizing the NMReady-60e in several courses such as Organic Chemistry 1 and 2, Analytical Chemistry, and Honors General Chemistry. It is utilized to teach NMR fundamentals, check reaction products, and unknowns. Our classes are relatively small, with typical lab sizes of 16. It is easy enough to operate that in a 3-hour lab, we can have small groups come in and learn how to run samples. The training for running standard proton spectra is minimal.

I appreciate how the new NMR's interface is intentionally designed to look beautiful and only show what is needed to run standard spectra.

Purchasing an instrument is often a complex interplay of multiple criteria, including cost, quality, ease of use, and maintenance. For Southwestern College, the NMReady-60e was the perfect match for our criteria, and we have no regrets about our choice.

Southwestern College previously had one of the last permanent magnet systems made by JEOL. The new system is student-friendly and easier to maintain. We had some instrumentation funding, and the price point allowed us also to obtain a new FT-IR and UHPLC. The low maintenance is another plus. I appreciate that the system still uses traditional NMR tubes, but has no moving parts such as those for spinner air.”

Kings College London

Melissa Edmondson, Teaching Technician, Department of Chemistry
Kings College London

Melissa Edmondson and the team at Kings College London were an early adopter of the NMReady for undergraduate teaching. They use it for teaching, outreach and research within both the organic and inorganic curriculum.

“Kings Chemistry Teaching Labs purchased the Nanalysis 60 MHz benchtop NMR back in 2013 and over the years it has become an integral part of the laboratory programme. Undergraduate students typically run both their starting materials and products for the majority of their synthesis experiments. The frequent use and in lab data analysis means NMR interpretation becomes second nature to our students by the time they reach year 3.

In addition to undergraduate teaching we also use the NMR as part of our spectroscopy outreach event which is aimed at giving external groups of year 12 and year 13 students an introduction and practical experience of spectroscopic techniques. This is very successful event that we run once a year and have received excellent feedback from the schools and students.

Besides teaching the 60 MHz NMR has also been used by various research groups within chemistry and pharmacy who are particularly interested in the possible portable nature of the NMR and its application in quality control.

The instrument itself is very easy to use with students requiring minimal training before they can use the NMR independently. The run time for each spectra is very short so even with only one instrument in the department we very rarely have students waiting to run their samples.

Day to day very little maintained or set up is required; the front filter may need changing from time to time but this is very easy to do and the instrument notifies you of when this needs to be done.

The NMR itself is very reliable and when left shimming in standby mode is always ready to use. On the few occasions when things do go wrong the team in Calgary are always happy to connect remotely to the instrument and fix any problems they find.

Overall I am very happy with the purchase of this instrument and the ongoing support given by Nanalysis and GPE Scientific. I would specifically recommend this instrument to undergraduate teaching labs as it really does show the students the value of NMR in chemical synthesis."

Valley City State University

Dr. Teather Sundstrom, Assistant Professor, Department of Science
Valley City State University

“Our NMReady-60 works just as great now as it did 4 years ago when it was purchased. Its compact size makes it easy to accommodate in a teaching lab and the spectra are so easy to run. I haven’t needed much support from customer service but when I have, they’re friendly and easy to work with. This instrument is a valuable tool for our small liberal arts students to learn from and we couldn’t be happier with it.”

Trans World Chemicals Inc.

Dr. Robert Todd, Chief Operating Officer
Trans World Chemical Inc.

Dr. Robert Todd and the team at Tans World Chemicals Inc. envisioned to supply researchers with a unique line of chemical products not offered by large chemical supply houses, Trans World Chemicals, Inc. services customers in biomedical, pharmaceutical and agricultural research as well as universities and other chemical companies.

“We are pleased that we are able to use the Nanalysis benchtop NMR spectrometer in our commercial laboratory to support both operations and R&D. This instrument eliminates the need to outsource samples to expensive analytical labs by allowing our chemists to analyze samples in near real-time; resulting in improved reaction yields and improved product development cycle-times. As a result, we are able to offer both new and existing products to customers at a lower rates and lead-times.”

Memorial University

Dr. Michael Katz, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Memorial University

Dr. Michael Katz, with considerable support of the Department of Chemistry, wrote an application for a benchtop NMR to the “Teaching and Learning Framework” grant at Memorial University. In class or in the lab, the long-term goal of the grant was to create a new teaching infrastructure within the chemistry department where students get first hand experience with all aspects of NMR (sample prep, data collection, and interpretation).

"We believe that this is a critical for the development of students as researchers at both industrial and academic settings without the fear that many students feel the first time they step up to a high field instrument. The NMReady instrument is perfect for the task. With our1H and31P capabilities, students are getting first hand experience with understanding symmetry in coordination chemistry, equilibria in physical chemistry, and organic transformations in organic chemistry (and this is just the first semester with it). The NMReady-60PRO, and the course wear that we have developed around it is a central to the success of our undergraduate research program."

University of Alberta

Dr. Carlos Velázquez-Martínez, Associate Professor, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Alberta

Dr. Carlos Velazquez’s research group is actively engaged in the development of safe and effective cancer chemotherapeutic and chemopreventive agents. While queuing up for a 600 MHz NMR spectrometer in his department, students in Dr. Velazquez’s research group have the time-saving option of using a benchtop NMReady to analyze samples of starting materials and relatively simple products. Using the benchtop spectrometer, students usually know if they produced the target compound before the high field NMR is even ready for them to use.

University of Northern Colorado

Dr. Michael Mosher, Professor & Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Northern Colorado

Dr. Mosher is the Chair of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at the University of Northern Colorado and was first impressed with the NMReady when he came across the instrument at ACS. Dr. Mosher decided to purchase the instrument when he was “re-vamping” the organic chemistry laboratory. His goal was to increase the exposure of the students to instrumentation used in industry and by practicing chemists. While the department had a 400MHz FT-NMR, it was not conducive to undergraduate use.

Boston College Chemistry

Dr. Kenneth Metz, Adjunct Professor of Chemistry Director of Advanced Chemistry Laboratories
Boston College Chemistry

Dr. Metz was first intrigued by the NMReady because it uses standard 5 mm NMR tubes just like research spectrometers. Having devoted 40 years to the field of NMR himself, he recognized a pressing need for a small, sensitive, and user-friendly high resolution instrument optimized for beginning students. He believes the NMReady represents a near-perfect synthesis of these qualities. Despite having numerous high-field spectrometers, Boston College has incorporated the NMReady into its undergraduate chemistry teaching labs, greatly expanding students’ hands-on experience with NMR. The instrument is being used regularly by freshman to senior students in organic, honors, and advanced methods labs.

Penchem Technologies Sdn Bhd

Dr. Ng Chee Mang, Managing Director
Penchem Technologies Sdn Bhd

Penchem designs, develops and manufactures innovative advanced polymer solutions to solve the most demanding requirements in automotive, semiconductors, electronics, electrical, photo-optics and green energy saving applications.

The NMReady is used to improve workflow and performance. By characterizing monomers prior to polymerization, it helps ensure that the polymerization reactions will be high yielding and optimized. Reactions can be easily monitored while in progress and compositional ratios can be easily determined on intermediates and end products.

Nanyang Technological University

Dr. Sumod A. Pullarkat, Senior Lecturer, Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry
Nanyang Technological University

Dr. Pullarkat incorporated the NMReady into undergraduate chemistry labs at NTU for over 200 students, giving each of them hands-on access to NMR and aligning it with his lecture course on NMR.

Dr. Pullarkat’s research interests include the investigation of Ru, Pd and Ir metallacycles and related systems for their potential as catalysts in various organic synthetic scenarios, especially catalytic protocols for the asymmetric generation of new chiral phosphines from non-chiral substrates.