Quantachrome
Instruments announces the release of the latest version of its AS1Win software,
ver 2.01. The new program is Windows Vista compliant and includes new functionality
and upgraded, user-friendly features. The new program replaces ver 1.5X and
ships with all new Autosorb-1MP and -1AG instrument orders.
This latest release adds a new physisorption "Heat of Adsorption"
calculation, user-selectable units of measurement for familiar reporting of
data, the latest library of Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations, and
an enhanced user interface with optional database search engine. Users in the
pharmaceutical industry can choose the 21 CFR Part 11 compliant version with
required features including expiration of login passwords, idle timeout, encoded
audit trail, unique report id's etc. This latest software program additionally
offers data reduction of any Quantachrome gas sorption data files from other
models such as Autosorb-6B, Nova, Quadrasorb and Hydrosorb.
According to Dr Martin A. Thomas, Quantachrome's Director of Business Development,
"...the ground-breaking, new materials in the fields of hydrogen storage,
lithium ion batteries, CO2 and methane sequestration and so on, absolutely require
state-of-the-art characterization technologies, and it is in response to the
ever changing needs of the materials science world that Quantachrome constantly
improves both its instruments and associated software products. For example,
we are world-leaders in the application of DFT methods to pore size, volume
and surface area determination."