Meet today’s demands head on with a solution-based approach
Our next generation Thermo Scientific Evolution UV-Vis Spectrophotometers combine reliable and versatile hardware with easy-to-learn, easy-to-use Thermo Scientific Insight Pro Software. Together they will meet the diverse needs your organization requires from an analytical tool.
Meet today’s demands head on with a solution-based approach
Reliable, versatile hardware
- Address your laboratory’s needs with fixed or variable bandwidth options
- Meet chemical, materials science, or biological sampling and measurement needs with a broad range of accessories
- All accessories from previous Evolution UV-Vis Spectrophotometer models are compatible with today’s Evolution Spectrophotometers
A software partner
- Meet current 21 CFR part 11 compliance, including database storage
- Validate according to current USP, EP, or JP standards
- Streamline your routine, complex, and advanced routines and workflows
Choose the instrument that’s right for you
Evolution One Spectrophotometer | Evolution One Plus Spectrophotometer | Evolution Pro Spectrophotometer | |
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| Routine measurements, high resolution data | Greater experimental flexibility for research and more complex applications | Comprehensive solution for advanced applications | |
| Application | QC applications | Complex applications, research, kinetics | High value QA/QC, advanced research |
Hardware | |||
| Spectral bandwidth | Fixed: 1 nm | Variable:1 nm, 2 nm AFBG Microcell optimized; AFBG Fiber optic optimized; AFBG Materials optimized | Variable: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 4 nm |
| Light source | Xenon | Xenon | Xenon |
| Optical system | Double beam | Double beam | Double beam |
Software | |||
| Current Pharmacopoeia compliance | USP and EP | USP and EP | USP, EP, and JP |
| 21 CFR part 11* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CUE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Database storage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Report printing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kinetics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Featured accessory compatibility** | |||
| Mercury lamp | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ pre-installed option also available |
| Fiber optics | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Peltier and Sipper systems | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-cell options | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrating sphere for transmittance and reflectance | ✓ | ||
| VeeMax® Variable Specular Reflectance | ✓ | ||
| Praying Mantis Diffuse Reflectance | ✓ | ||
| Warranty | 2 years | 2 years | 2 years |
*Requires Thermo Scientific Insight Pro Security Software
**Optional accessories are sold separately
Validated UV-Vis solution for pharmaceuticals
Evolution UV-Vis Spectrophotometers meet all USP and EP performance characteristics and enable 21CFR Part 11 compliance.
Pharmacopeia Compliance Specifications
Please note: Evolution One/One Plus meets current USP and EP compliance | Evolution Pro meets current USP, EP, and JP compliance.
| Parameters | Standard(s) used | Pharmacopeia specification (tightest) |
| Wavelength accuracy | Mercury lamp | USP - ≤ ± 1 nm in UV range ≤ ± 2 nm in visible range JP - ≤ ± 0.3 nm over full λ range |
| Holmium perchlorate solution | USP - ≤ ± 1 nm in UV range ≤ ± 2 nm in visible range | |
| Didymium solution or glass | USP - ≤ ± 1 nm in UV range ≤ ± 3 nm in visible range JP - ≤ ± 0.5 nm over full λ range | |
| Wavelength repeatability | Mercury lamp | JP - ≤ ± 0.2 nm over full λ range USP - ≤ ± 0.5 nm over full λ range |
| Holmium perchlorate solution | EP/USP - ≤ ± 0.5 nm over full λ range | |
| Didymium solution or glass | JP - ≤ ± 0.2 nm over full λ range | |
| Photometric accuracy | Certified potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7) | EP - ± 0.010A USP - ≤ ± 0.010A in UV range ≤ ± 0.008A in visible range |
| Certified filters | EP - EP - ≥1.0A, ±0.8%A; <1.0A, ±0.008ª JP - ± 1% of upper and lower limits of standard transmission rate value | |
| Neutral density filters (Vis only) | TGA | |
| Photometric repeatability | Certified potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7) | JP - For standard values ≤ 0.500, ±0.002 of mean; for standard values >0.500, ±0.004 |
| Neutral density filters (Vis Only) | JP - For standard values ≤ 0.500, ±0.002 of mean; for standard values >0.500, ±0.004 | |
| Stray light | Certified potassium chloride (KCl, 12g/L) | EP - > 2.0A @ 198 nm (< 1%T) |
| Potassium iodide or sodium iodide (KI/NaI, 10g/L) | USP/EP - > 3.0A @ 220 nm | |
| Acetone | USP - > 0.7A @ 300 nm | |
| Sodium nitrite (NaNO2, 50g/L) | EP- > 3.0A @ 340 nm | |
| Resolution | Toluene in hexane (0.02%) | Ratio @ 0.5 SBW ≥ 2.3 at 25 °C |
| Photometric linearity | Certified filters | JP/EP - Verify linearity of transmission rate, R2 > 0.999 |
