Aurora Series column features

Aurora Series column features


Aurora Series columns are available in four distinct product formats, allowing for compatibility with Thermo Scientific, Bruker, and Sciex instruments:

Instrument Compatibility

  • Aurora Columns
    • Compatible for use with Thermo Scientific’s Nanospray Flex ion source.

  • Aurora XT Columns
    • Compatible with Thermo Scientific Nanospray Flex and EASY-Spray source, and Newomics UniESI ion source for Agilent.

  • Aurora CSI Columns
    • Compatible for use with Bruker’s CaptiveSpray, CaptiveSpray 2, CaptiveSpray Ultra, and CaptiveSpray Ultra 2 ion sources.

  • Aurora XS Columns
    • Compatible with SCIEX OptiFlow Turbo V ion source, using the nanoflow probe.

Key Technological Innovations

Aurora Series columns are differentiated by two key technological advances:
  1. A unique packed emitter design that enables maximum mobile phase velocity with no post-column dead volume.
  2. Our own nanoZero® technology that provides user friendly ‘plug and play’ connections with true zero pre-column dead volume
Together, these features combine to maximise chromatographic efficiency and dramatically enhance performance, providing a best in class solution for peptide and metabolite LC-MS separations.

Product Features

  1. Integrated emitter with zero post-column dead volume.
  2. Pre-fitted with nanoZero® to provide a zero-dead-volume female union between a nanoViper™ Fingertight fitting (or equivalent) and the Aurora Series column.
  3. nanoZero® fitting incorporates a 10-32 internal thread for easy installation.
  4. Designed to withstand ultra-high-performance LC (UHPLC) backpressures of >1700 bar.
  5. nanoZero® is electrically conductive to allow a voltage connection to the column.



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