Mrs. Bollinger is a key asset for Lantha in budget auditing, financial analysis, international markets, and competitive analysis. She has more than 35 years of experience in the financial services business in the US, Europe and Asia. Her early career focused on equity research and she was a top-ranked analyst for Goldman Sachs in New York.

The Karl Fischer Confidence Index, a measure of overall confidence among U.S. and Canadian lab workers for Karl Fischer titrators (KFT), debuted with a dramatic 82 percent of respondents saying they are likely to adopt new solutions over Karl Fischer titration.

Lantha Sensors can replace the following technologies for specific chemical analysis needs:

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Mass Spectrometry
• Infrared Spectroscopy
• X-ray Fluorescence
• Karl Fischer Titration

Innovation in the chemical analysis industry has been stagnant for decades, plagued with unnecessarily expensive equipment, tools that require months to learn for proper use, inability to use in field settings and toxic byproducts. From Karl Fisher Titrators to NMR labs the problems have remained the same for far too long.

Simon Humphrey, a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin, and his team were making routine measurements when they noticed that the fluorescence color of a combination of lanthanide ions and triphenylphosphine changed depending on whether the compounds were submerged in regular or heavy (deuterated) water.

Combined, the platform enables unparalleled simplicity, speed, and accuracy to provide the best possible solutions for the chemical detection and measurement process—period.   

To say we’re excited about the future of Lantha Sensors is an understatement. It’s not very often that we find a company with the potential to disrupt an entire industry.

It is nothing new to anyone in the international shipping business that testing moisture levels in ethanol and methanol is a complicated, tedious and extremely costly process – for many, unnecessarily so. The existing process is fraught with problems that can cause shipping delays and increased expenses – worse is all these problems are all due to existing technologies that haven’t changed in nearly 85 years.

When compared to other technologies, the Lantha platform produces the same accuracy, but has an unbeatable ROI that will displace most of these legacy instruments in the coming years. Finally, in the case of KFT (technique used for moisture analysis in samples), we are also offering a greener alternative as our testing methodology does not generate hazardous waste streams, unlike KFT kits.

The LanthaLux reader is a handheld device using fluorescence detection of LanthaHD test strips with customisable MOF areas consisting of different lanthanides in varying ratios, which create sensors for a broad array of chemicals.

Our test kits are field deployable, so they’re portable. And it’s cheap and you don’t need specialized training to go run those tests.

Lantha Sensors' handheld reader and single-use, disposable solid-state sensors are faster, cheaper and easier to use than traditional analytic tools such as NMR, FTIR and Karl Fischer titration, and they are just as accurate. 

It’s a little bit like Lego-using molecules … we fix them together in this honeycomb arrangement, … and (they) start to emit visible color.