Hardware
C5-23512D-CU: sample preparation and chromatography in one valve
Twelve positions, one bidirectional pump, and all the sample preparation in four valve movements. How the patented valve at the heart of PalmChrom works, position by position.
Blog
From pen and paper to PalmChrom’s first field deployment.
Development updates, technical deep-dives, and news from our research network. Questions or ideas? Contact me.
Sample preparation
Inline bead injection: solid phase extraction inside the injector
Offline, atline, online, inline. What the four words mean, why I call my approach inline, and how a renewable sorbent bed ended up inside the injection loop of an HPLC.
Behind PalmChrom
Why I’m building a portable HPLC
For the last 15 years, my work has centered on a simple, and stubborn, problem: how do you get lab-grade chemical analysis to the place where the sample actually is, instead of the other way around?
Software
Short history of CocoSoft: toward smart fluidic control
CocoSoft is the software that has controlled our lab instruments for years, and the direct ancestor of PalmSoft, PalmChrom’s control software. Here’s its story: twelve years, 34 updates, from a single valve actuated at predefined times to an automation suite for smart biochemical analysis.
PalmChrom is completing final certification, expected by the end of 2026.
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