Publications related to Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Numerical and experimental investigations of a microwave interferometer for the negative ion source SPIDER

Ivo Furno, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

The electron density close to the extraction grids and the co-extracted electrons represent a crucial issue when operating negative ion sources for fusion reactors. An excessive electron density in the plasma expansion region can indeed inhibit the negativ ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Fragment ion-functional group relationships in organic aerosols using aerosol mass spectrometry and mid-infrared spectroscopy

Satoshi Takahama, Amir Yazdani, Imad El Haddad, Nikunj Dudani

Aerosol mass spectrometry (AMS) and mid-infrared spectroscopy (MIR) are two analytical methods for characterizing the chemical composition of OM. While AMS provides high-temporal-resolution bulk measurements, the extensive fragmentation during the electron ...

2022

Constraining the response factors of an extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometer for near-molecular aerosol speciation

Julia Schmale, Imad El Haddad, Yandong Tong

Online characterization of aerosol composition at the near-molecular level is key to understanding chemical reaction mechanisms, kinetics, and sources under various atmospheric conditions. The recently developed extractive electrospray ionization time-of-f ...

2021

Real-Time Detection of Aerosol Metals Using Online Extractive Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Christian Ludwig, Mohamed Tarik, Houssni Lamkaddam

Metal emissions are of major environmental and practical concern because of their highly toxic effects on human health and ecosystems. Current technologies available in the market for their detection are typically limited by a time resolution of 1 h or lon ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Online Aerosol Chemical Characterization by Extractive Electrospray Ionization-Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry (EESI-Orbitrap)

Julia Schmale, Imad El Haddad

Current mass spectrometry techniques for the online measurement of organic aerosol (OA) composition are subjected to either thermal/ionization-induced artifacts or limited mass resolving power, hindering accurate molecular characterization. Here, we combin ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Evaporation of Metals during the Thermal Treatment of Oxide Nanomaterials in Cellulose-Based Matrices

Christian Ludwig, Mohamed Tarik

Like conventional material products, waste is the last stage of the life cycle of engineered nanomaterials, which are then incinerated or stabilized before disposal. However, because of their special physical characteristics, the fate of the thermally trea ...

2020

H- ion source for CERN's Linac4 accelerator : simulation, experimental validation and optimization of the hydrogen plasma

Stefano Mattei

Linac4 is the new negative hydrogen ion (H-) linear accelerator of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Its ion source operates on the principle of Radio-Frequency Inductively Coupled Plasma (RF-ICP) and it is required to provide 50 mA of ...

EPFL2017

Quasi-Instantaneous Bacterial Inactivation on Cu-Ag Nanoparticulate 3D Catheters in the Dark and Under Light: Mechanism and Dynamics

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines

The first evidence for Cu-Ag (50%/50%) nanoparticulate hybrid coatings is presented leading to a complete and almost instantaneous bacterial inactivation in the dark (

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Development of mass spectrometric methods to understand the mechanism of action of transition metal-based anticancer compounds

Fook Seng Ronald Lee

Metal based anti-cancer drugs (metallodrugs) such as cisplatin are a cornerstone of cancer chemotherapy. However, development of this class of compound has been hindered by our lack of understanding of how they function. This is mainly because existing met ...

EPFL2016

Measurement of the Radial Profile of the Plasma Isotopic Composition in JET Plasmas Using Alfven Eigenmodes

Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Theodoros Panis

The measurement of the plasma isotopic composition is necessary in future burning plasma devices such as ITER and DEMO as a tool for optimizing the DT fusion performance. This paper reports on the results of experiments performed on the JET tokamak where T ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2015

Complex image method for RF antenna-plasma inductive coupling calculation in planar geometry. Part II: measurements on a resonant network

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

Measurements and analysis of a radio-frequency planar antenna are presented for applications in inductively-coupled plasma processing. The network of inductive and capacitive elements exhibits high currents under resonance which are efficient for plasma ge ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Identification of hemoglobin variants by top-down mass spectrometry using selected diagnostic product ions

Yury Tsybin

Hemoglobin disorder diagnosis is a complex procedure combining several analytical steps. Due to the lack of specificity of the currently used protein analysis methods, the identification of uncommon hemoglobin variants (proteoforms) can become a hard task ...

Springer Heidelberg2015

Application of mass spectrometric techniques to delineate the modes-of-action of anticancer metallodrugs

Paul Joseph Dyson, Christian Hartinger, Angela Casini, Michael Groessl

Mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as an important tool for studying anticancer metallodrugs in complex biological samples and for characterising their interactions with biomolecules and potential targets on a molecular level. The exact modes-of-action of ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

The metastable HCl center dot 6H(2)O phase - IR spectroscopy, phase transitions and kinetic/thermodynamic properties in the range 170-205 K

Michel Rossi, Simone Chiesa

In this laboratory study a multidiagnostic experimental approach including Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) absorption of 1 to 2 mu m thick polycrystalline ice films, residual gas mass spectrometry (MS) and total pressure measurement were employed. Both a ...

Copernicus GmbH2013

Innovative TiO2/Cu Nanosurfaces Inactivating Bacteria in the Minute Range under Low-Intensity Actinic Light

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines, Oualid Baghriche

The bacterial inactivation of E. coli by cotton TiO2/Cu DC-magnetron sputtered thin films was investigated in the dark and under low-intensity actinic light. The TiO2/Cu sputtered layers revealed to be sensitive to actinic light showing the spectral charac ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Characterization of Silver Nanoparticle Products Using Asymmetric Flow Field Flow Fractionation with a Multidetector Approach - a Comparison to Transmission Electron Microscopy and Batch Dynamic Light Scattering

Christian Ludwig, Andrea Ulrich, Harald Hagendorfer

Due to the already prevalent and increasing use of silver-nanoparticle (Ag-NP) products and the raised concerns in particular for the aquatic environment, analytical techniques for the characterization of such products are of need. However, because Ag-NP p ...

2012

Exploring metallodrug-protein interactions by mass spectrometry: comparisons between platinum coordination complexes and an organometallic ruthenium compound

Paul Joseph Dyson, Angela Casini

Electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry was used to analyze the reactions of metal compds. with mixts. of selected proteins. Three representative medicinally relevant compds., cisplatin, transplatin and the organometallic ruthenium compd. RAPTA-C, were r ...

Springer-Verlag2009

Capillary electrophoresis hyphenated to inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry: A novel approach for the analysis of anticancer metallodrugs in human serum and plasma

Christian Hartinger, Michael Groessl

The development of metal-based chemotherapeutics lacks methods which are capable of providing early indication on the potential of new metal complexes as future anticancer drugs. Since most of these compounds are administered intravenously, serum proteins ...

2008

Efficient trapping of silver cations in a rare gas matrix: Ag3+ in argon

Sylvain Lecoultre, Alexandre Rydlo

Mass selected cations of Ag-clusters are deposited, together with Ar seeded with CO

_2

(or other electron scavengers such as O

_2

, N

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O, or CCl

_4

), on a cold substrate, while being flooded with low energy electrons. Optical absorption measurements re ...

2007

Electrochemical generation of Cu(I) complexes in aqueous solutions studied by on-line mass spectrometry

Hubert Girault, Christophe Roussel, Michel Prudent

Taking advantage of the electrochemical aspects of electrospray ionization (ESI) sources in positive ionization mode mass spectrometry (MS), aqueous copper complexes are electrogenerated using sacrificial copper electrodes. When using 8-hydroxyquinoline or ...

Elsevier2007