Yesterday I submitted my proposal for becoming a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow. So if everything goes as hoped I will be collaborating with Prof. Christoph Schalley group in Free University of Berlin from the next schoolyear. My project there will be about supramolecular chemistry, more precisely on rotaxanes and molecular machines based on rotaxanes. It will introduce […]
Author Archives: Anneli Kruve
Last week I had a change to visit a brand new Polli laboratory of the Estonian University of Life Sciences together with our student Elmo. The Polli lab is located in Southern-Estonia near Karksi-Nuia and surrounded by breathtaking landscape with hills and lakes. The Polli laboratory is unique in Estonia as it combines equipment suitable […]
Students I supervised last school year gave me a rafting trip as a present with them for my birthday in May and on this Friday we went to Võhandu river for this trip. Altogether we passed 20 km containing both quite slow flow parts but also some cascades. Slow parts, though not that adventures, taught […]
Today I would like to introduce you to two books that I find very valuable and that can be freely downloaded from the internet. The “Five keys to successful LC methods” and “Controlling selectivity in reversed-phase LC” are collections of articles published in LC/GC in the section “LC Troubleshooting” by John W. Dolan. It’s useful […]
In my statistics course, similarly to I guess all other teachers concerned in calibration, I teach that for instrumental analyses weighted linear regression should be used. Why? Non-weighted linear regression (the one we can use with LINEST, SLOPE and INTERCEPT in excel) assumes same signal precision (repeatability standard deviation in other words) for all concentrations […]
From 20th to 29th of July 47th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) was held in Baku, Azerbaijan. All together 290 form 75 countries solved 3 practical and 8 theoretical tasks. This Olympiad was definitely one of the hardest in IChO history, most probably being hard to solve for a masters student not only for high school […]
I started writing this blog to share with you some fascinating stuff I come across every once in a while. I try to cover not only the research of me and my co-workers but also other fabulous scientific papers. Also I give some practical tips concerning statistics, optimization of analytical methods (especially LC and MS) […]