RTA becomes a participating member of ASTM (Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants). The mission is to help contribute to the voluntary consensus standards related to fuel characterization of petroleum products.
ASTM D02 MEETING – DEC 2016 – Orlando, FL
Dates: Sunday Dec 4, 2017 – Thursday Dec 8, 2017
Location: Orlando, FL
2017 PittCon, Chicago, IL, USA
March 5 – 9, 2017
McCormick Place
Chicago, IL, USA
McCormick Place
Chicago, IL, USA
RTA will be exhibiting at Pittcon 2017 – Booth 4424
Products Presented
Portable Fuel Property Analyzer
Food Pathogen Analyzer
RTA wins $1M contract from US Army
RTA wins $1M Army contract to develop ruggedized military grade portable fuel analyzer.
RTA Gets on Cover Page of Analyst Journal
RTA gets cover page for paper published in Analyst.
“Selective detection of 1000 B. anthracis spores within 15 minutes using a peptide functionalized SERS assay”
Abstract: A surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) assay has been designed to detect Bacillus anthracis spores. The assay consists of silver nanoparticles embedded in a porous glass structure that have been functionalized with ATYPLPIR, a peptide developed to discriminately bind B. anthracis versus other species of Bacillus. Once bound, acetic acid was used to release the biomarker dipicolinic acid from the spores, which was detected by SERS through the addition of silver colloids. This SERS assay was used to selectively bind B. anthracis with a 100-fold selectivity versus B. cereus, and to detect B. anthracis Ames at concentrations of 1000 spores per mL within 15 minutes. The SERS assay measurements provide a basis for the development of systems that can detect spores collected from the air or from water supplies.
Volume 139, Number 24, December 21, 2014.
