Owlstone Nanotech
Owlstone develops, manufactures, and supplies advanced chemical detection solutions across various markets and applications, including security, defense, automotive, and healthcare. Their technology offers high sensitivity and selectivity for detecting a wide range of chemicals, enabling rapid and accurate measurement. They collaborate with industry leaders to integrate their innovative platform into next-generation sensing products, emphasizing safety, economy, practicality, and accuracy.
Industries
Nr. of Employees
medium (51-250)
Products
Portable programmable chemical analyzer (point-of-need)
A compact, user-friendly, programmable analyzer intended for point-of-need detection and identification of VOCs, TICs and other target analytes by non-specialist operators.
Handheld/field chemical detector (defense/tactical form factor)
A handheld detection device designed for rapid airborne threat detection and the ability to update detection libraries for emergent threats.
Calibration gas generator and flow-control components
Systems and accessories for producing controlled calibration gas mixtures and for managing gas flows during instrument calibration and testing.
Portable programmable chemical analyzer (point-of-need)
A compact, user-friendly, programmable analyzer intended for point-of-need detection and identification of VOCs, TICs and other target analytes by non-specialist operators.
Handheld/field chemical detector (defense/tactical form factor)
A handheld detection device designed for rapid airborne threat detection and the ability to update detection libraries for emergent threats.
Calibration gas generator and flow-control components
Systems and accessories for producing controlled calibration gas mixtures and for managing gas flows during instrument calibration and testing.
Services
Collaborative development and integration of chemical sensing technology into partner products and solutions across industrial, defense, environmental, and food sectors.
Supply of permeation-tube calibration standards and calibration gas generation systems for trace-level instrument calibration and validation.
Development of validated detection methods for specific analytes and sector use-cases (e.g., residual solvents, food taints, water contaminants, industrial amines).
Collaborative development and integration of chemical sensing technology into partner products and solutions across industrial, defense, environmental, and food sectors.
Supply of permeation-tube calibration standards and calibration gas generation systems for trace-level instrument calibration and validation.
Development of validated detection methods for specific analytes and sector use-cases (e.g., residual solvents, food taints, water contaminants, industrial amines).
Expertise Areas
- Chemical sensing and trace gas analysis
- Ion mobility spectrometry and FAIMS research
- Portable and field-deployable gas analyzers
- Calibration gas standards and permeation tube methodologies
Key Technologies
- Field Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometry (FAIMS)
- Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS)
- LC-FAIMS-MS (ion mobility coupled to liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry)
- Differential Mobility Analysis (DMA)
News & Updates
Jim Reynolds' paper from ISIMS 'Direct Analysis of Potentially Genotoxic Impurities in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients using Miniaturized Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry' is now available.
Ion mobility separations made an appearance at the recent EMPW 2012 workshop, held at Loughborough University, with research involving biomarkers discovery and proteomics approaches.
Recent years have seen the commercialization of new IMS variants, including Transversal Modulation IMS (TM-IMS) developed by SEADM and high-resolution IONER by Ramem, with applications in explosives detection, breath analysis, and proteomics.
A review of the use of cylindrical, planar, and miniaturized ultra-high field FAIMS devices in proteomics, highlighting their benefits in peptide discovery, detection limits, and complex sample analysis.
An article discussing the increasing use of field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) in proteomics, especially for analyzing protein post-translational modifications and glycosylation.
Analysis of author affiliations in FAIMS-MS research, showing the leading institutions in the field, including academic, corporate, and government research entities.
Jim Reynolds' paper from ISIMS 'Direct Analysis of Potentially Genotoxic Impurities in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients using Miniaturized Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry' is now available.
Ion mobility separations made an appearance at the recent EMPW 2012 workshop, held at Loughborough University, with research involving biomarkers discovery and proteomics approaches.
Recent years have seen the commercialization of new IMS variants, including Transversal Modulation IMS (TM-IMS) developed by SEADM and high-resolution IONER by Ramem, with applications in explosives detection, breath analysis, and proteomics.
A review of the use of cylindrical, planar, and miniaturized ultra-high field FAIMS devices in proteomics, highlighting their benefits in peptide discovery, detection limits, and complex sample analysis.
An article discussing the increasing use of field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) in proteomics, especially for analyzing protein post-translational modifications and glycosylation.
Analysis of author affiliations in FAIMS-MS research, showing the leading institutions in the field, including academic, corporate, and government research entities.