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MeasureNet Software Revamp Announced at ACS-New Orleans Conference

April 8, 2008

MeasureNet Technology Ltd. has announced a major software upgrade for the instructor PC attached to each data acquisition network. The new software will integrate support for multiple network controllers by a single PC, eliminating the current need to assign one PC for each 12-station network. Instructors will continue to have live access to any local student data acquisition in this multiple network arrangement.

The software will also present a number of functional changes. Instructors will have increased flexibility for viewing and assessing student data such as adjusting data parameters and identifying points on a curve in the data view mode. Collaborative activities between institutions will be supported by the ability, with the appropriate permissions, to remotely monitor live data acquisitions from other institutions. Also, the new software will enable remote diagnostics to enhance timely hardware and software troubleshooting.

The upgrade has been structured so that the new “look” of the user interface, as well as many of the data views, can be easily changed via custom plug-ins written by end users. MeasureNet plans improvements to its network software in the 2008-2009 period.

MeasureNet is the only data acquisition system for the science teaching laboratory with out-of-the-box LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) features that include remote data retrieval, in-lab instructor monitoring of student acquisitions, and distance monitoring of data acquisitions by collaborating institutions.

MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph and HPLC connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.

For more information contact:

Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com

MeasureNet Technology Ltd

MeasureNet Adds Parr Solution Calorimeter to Lineup

March 22, 2007

Parr MeasureNet Solution Calorimeter

MeasureNet Technology is introducing the first of a series of new capabilities for 2007 with the Parr 6755 Solution Calorimeter. As a teaching instrument, it has an important place in college and university laboratories for demonstrating the fundamentals of thermochemistry. The pairing of the calorimeter with a MeasureNet workstation provides a very cost-effective package by eliminating the need for the usual stand-alone thermometric data-logging interface.

Any liquid-liquid or liquid-solid chemical reaction where heat is evolved or absorbed within a temperature range from 10° to 50°C can be studied in the 6755 Calorimeter.

Heats of Reaction, either endothermic or exothermic, can be determined in many different systems, ranging from simple acid-based reactions to more complicated redox, chelation, hydrolysis, hydrolysis and other reactions. The heat of solution produced when a solid dissolves in a liquid can be measured easily. Similarly, the calorimeter can be used to measure the heat of dilution produced by diluting a solution with solvent or with a solution of a lower concentration. It will also measure the heat of mixing, produced when two liquids are combined.

Reactions in the 6755 Calorimeter are conducted in a fully silvered glass Dewar (48 mm inside diameter x 103 mm deep). The stirring mechanism consists of an externally mounted electric motor with a drive belt that turns the stirring shaft at a constant speed (approx. 450 rpm) with no slippage and very little bearing friction.

MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.

For more information contact:

Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com

MeasureNet Technology Ltd

Remotely Monitor and Collaborate With MeasureNet

March 22, 2007

Have you ever wanted to look in from your office or remote location to check on the progress of your lab students? Or what about sharing experiment data from this morning’s lab with rural student miles away with no lab access? With MeasureNet’s new Remote Monitor software, you can— whether you’re down the hall or across the country.

Designed with partnerships and outreach activities in mind, Remote Monitor gives institutions without MeasureNet a chance to participate through the graphical viewing of acquired data files and the analysis of collected data via most any statistical or spreadsheet software. It also allows lab directors, instructors, and teaching assistants to monitor their MeasureNet networks from different physical locations.

Any station on any network can be monitored live or its saved files can be downloaded to any PC running Remote Monitor. Network chat boxes make it easy for teaching assistants to communicate with each other or with the lab manager. Remote Monitor also enables MeasureNet’s Cincinnati offices to quickly troubleshoot a network anywhere in the world as long as it is connected to the Internet. With appropriate IDs and passwords, a collaborating institution can have access to partner real-time lab experiments or saved data for research or outreach activities. Remote Monitor installs on any Windows-based PC connected to the Internet and doesn't require additional software or MeasureNet hardware.

MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.

For more information contact:

Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com

MeasureNet Technology Ltd

New Electrochemistry Probeware and HPLC Connectivity

August 1, 2006

In keeping with its tradition of innovation and leadership in teaching lab data acquisition, MeasureNet is introducing exciting new probeware for electrochemical titrations and High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). These new capabilities expand MeasureNet efficiency beyond General Chemistry into advanced lab environments.

Commercially available by the end of 2006, new electrochemistry electrodes will allow users to perform potentiometric and amperometric titrations. A single dual platinum-wire electrode will perform both amperometric and potentiometric acquisitions with the simple swapping of an adapter. Current and voltage settings for the probe can be set directly at each MeasureNet workstation.

Examples for potentiometry are the titration of Fe2+ with Ce4+ on dual platinum electrodes at constant current or the determination of chloride with silver nitrate using one indicator and one reference electrode at zero current.  The amperometric technique will complement the potentiometric method. Examining a particular redox system with various techniques allows a critical evaluation and comparison of each method and its suitability for the particular analysis.

New Electrochemistry Probeware and HPLC Connectivity

MeasureNet is also adding High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) connectivity using the Buck Scientific BLC-10 and BLC-20 models. The cost-effective BLC-10 Series Systems have very sensitive filter photometers for routine assays at the most common wavelengths: 254, 280, 365, 420, 505, and 540nm. It includes a pump and injector for instant analyses. The instrument features a completely integrated design for full functionality and, like MeasureNet, has a small footprint that saves space on lab benchtops. The BLC-20 Series Analytical HPLC systems use a high-quality, precision monochromator-based spectrophotometer for a full range of wavelengths (190-800nm) for selective analyses integrated into a complete LC package. The BLC-20 also is easily upgraded to a gradient system. Both BCL-10 and BLC-20 models boast accuracy of 1% maximum deviation and <0.5% RSD precision.

New Electrochemistry Probeware and HPLC Connectivity

The BLC-10 and BLC-20 HPLCs offer significant capability and value versus traditional high-end brands, particularly when efficiently shared via a MeasureNet network using MeasureNet’s web-based data storage feature. HPLC connectivity will be available beginning in December, 2006.

MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.

For more information contact:

Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com

MeasureNet Technology Ltd

Analysis of Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) by Fluorescence Kinetics


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pH Titration Data Analysis Workbook

MeasureNet has released new data analysis software appropriate for use with pH titration experiments. Written for easy distribution and compatibility using a Microsoft Excel® workbook format, the package enables students to manipulate titration data and view first and second derivative graphs. Consistent with other workbooks in the series, it eliminates much of the tedious data manipulation, but leaves it to students to determine the significant points of a titration curve.

MeasureNet data files are generated for easy use with most statistical and graphing packages. Users can manipulate and analyze data using the system's optional custom print codes, Excel workbooks, or export raw data sets to analysis applications of the user's choice. This permits instructors a range of options to match student skill levels and desired learning outcomes. The Workbook includes detailed help areas that are intended to guide students through procedures without the oversight of an instructor.

MeasureNet bundles an entire series of Microsoft Excel® analysis workbooks with each of its networks. These include Absorption Spectroscopy, Melting Point Determination, Gas Laws, Chemical Kinetics, and Gas Chromatography. Licensed institutional users can freely distribute the workbooks to students for post-acquisition data analysis for the life of their MeasureNet System.

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MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. It's acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.

For more information contact:

Robert Voorhees
President & Founder
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
cell: 513-266-6045
voorhees@measurenet-tech.com

MeasureNet Technology Ltd

Multi-Function, Dual-Beam Colorimeter

Joins Infrared Drop Counter, Integrated Digital Balance, and Integrated GC as MeasureNet Firsts

April 1, 2005
Cincinnati, Ohio

MeasureNet announces the production model of its new dual-beam colorimeter. Its multi-functional design is an appropriate choice for kinetics, fluorescence, turbidity, and chemiluminescence experiments. The MeasureNet Colorimeter features a dual-beam design usually found only in higher-end instruments to enable simultaneous measurement of sample and reference cuvets. MeasureNet engineering ensures superior stability with very low drift rate and a range of factory-customizable options. Available at each individual student station along a MeasureNet Network, the MeasureNet Colorimeter features MeasureNet’s category-leading 24-bit analog to digital resolution and intuitive ease of use. It’s ready to use when attached to a station—no need for external power or waiting for source warm up. The advanced, multi-functional design supports experiments in General Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Environmental Science.

Probe Characteristics
• Dual-beam colorimeter design
• Category-leading drift minimization
• Red LED 630 nm
• Green LED 525 nm
• Blue LED 472 nm
• Factory-customizable functions
(any two) –Turbidity utilizing 880 nm IR
LED (at 90°)
–Fluorescence (at 90°)
–370 nm UV LED
–390 nm UV LED
–430 nm Visible LED
–470 nm Visible LED
• 9-pin RS232 output jack
• Interface-powered (no external AC)

INTRODUCTORY PRICE $295.00
ITEM NO. MCOL116
THROUGH SEPTEMBER, 30th, 2005; STANDARD PRICE $395.00

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Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com

Gas Chromatography option added from GOW-MAC

gas chromatograph

MeasureNet has introduced gas chromatograph connectivity to its suite of data acquisition capabilities. The announcement at the 227th American Chemical Society meeting in Anaheim in March was another first amongst teaching lab interfaces. A GOW-MAC 350 is one of a number of models that can be connected to MeasureNet data terminals for individual "at station" use. MeasureNet also announced a forthcoming Excel workbook to provide analysis capability relevant to gas chromatography. Two new MeasureNet networks at the University of Georgia in Athens are the first to be equipped with this enhanced capability. "UGA wanted an advanced data acquisition capability beyond their freshman labs. MeasureNet's new GC connectivity, along with shared diode-array UV-vis spectrometer provided a fitting solution" according to MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees.

MeasureNet Helps UC Patent Earnings Top Region

A recent February 11th University of Cincinnati Bearcats halftime ceremony honored MeasureNet Technology's president Robert Voorhees for the company's contribution to the university's title of regional patent income leader.

UC led all universities in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in patent income generated during 2002 with $6.5 million. Other schools ranked in the region include Indiana University ($3.8 million), Case Western Reserve University ($3.0 million), University of Kentucky ($1.5 million), and Ohio State University ($828,000). During fiscal year 2003, research enterprises at UC reached $300 million. According to the National Science Foundation, the school placed 25th nationally amongst all public universities.

The MeasureNet System is a spin-off of research performed at the university's department of chemistry in the early and mid-1990s. That research was aided by grants from NSF and the Procter and Gamble Company of Cincinnati.

MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees (far left) at basketball halftime University of Cincinnati awards ceremony.

MeasureNet Helps UC Patent Earnings Top Region

> Related article: "UC Patent Income Tops Region." The News Record, January, 2004

Web-based Data Storage that defines total lab management

Award-Winning MeasureNet Technology introduces the first web-based data storage for the teaching laboratory.

MeasureNet is the first to introduce web-based data storage for its academic users. Students and instructors can post acquired data directly from student stations and instructor PCs without the use of email accounts or other software interfaces. Data sets can then be downloaded from the web storage area using any internet-enabled PC with a standard browser. Instructors can administer multiple lab sections and include links to relevant information for each experiment. Excel-based workbooks can be downloaded to aid in analysis. Password protected student accounts give users a high level of data security.

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