If a mass spectrometry (MS) works fine, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) does not and vice versa. For instance, MS can overcome the risks of neglecting impurities that can conceal the peaks, while HPLC provides contrasting and sharp imaging of peaks that provides high accuracy. Never before has any manufacturer combined the advantage of MS and HPLC, until Shimadzu came up with LCMS-2020. LCMS when combined with the ultra-high speed LC/MS Prominence UFLC, it greatly improves the lab productivity.
Shimadzu is a pioneer in the field of high-speed PHLC, turning out LC-5A/FLC column in 1982 and Prominence UFLC/XR column in 2006. Prominence UFLC/XR column has proved very successful in rapid analysis of multiple samples, providing high repeatability, durability, and data stability. LCMS-2020 takes the data analysis a notch up further.