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Inorganic Trace Analysis

Division 1.1

The research focus of the division Inorganic Trace Analysis is located at the material and environmental as well as life sciences interface. We are investigating the release of metals, elemental species as well as (nano-)particles from materials into the environment as well as their possible ingestion into organisms and cells – thus, our research aims at elucidating the environmental impact of (metal based) materials.

Therefore we are developing ICP-(ToF)-MS based methods for the (ultra-)trace analysis of metals, elemental species, isotope ratios as well as single particle/single cell analysis. To investigate the lateral distribution of elements laserablation-ICP-MS (LA-ICP-MS) is employed. To cover non-metal analysis we are developing complementary high resolution-continuum source-graphite furnace-molecular absorption spectrometry (HR-CS-GFMAS) based methods.

Group photo division 1.1 Inorganic Trace Analysis

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Our work areas at a glance [JPEG, 489 KB]

  • Fields of expertise

    • Trace- and Ultratraceanalysis via ICP-MS (ICP-QMS, ICP-SFMS)
    • Speciation analysis by means of on-line hyphenation of HPLC, CE with ICP-MS
    • Isotoperatio- as well as isotopedilution analysis via MC-ICP-MS, TIMS as well as ICP-SFMS
    • Elemental imaging by means of laser ablation-ICP-MS
    • Single cell/single particle-ICP-ToF-MS
    • Non-metal analysis via high resolution continuum source graphite furnace-molecular absorption spectrometry (HR-CS-GFMAS)
    • Metrology in Chemistry (e.g. CCQM, EMPIR)

  • Main activities

    • Multielemental analysis of single particles/ single cells via ICP-ToF-MS
    • Speciation analysis
    • Investigation of isotope fractionation; isotope dilution analysis
    • (Bio-)Imaging via LA-ICP-MS
    • Fluorine analysis via HR-CS-GFMAS
    • Supervision of Post-Docs, PhD students, Master-/Bachelor students, visiting scientists

  • Range of services/technical equipment

    • Multielemental analysis via ICP-MS (Quadrupol-, Sectorfield-, collisioncell systems)
    • Speciation analysis via hyphenated techniques (HPLC/, CE/ICP-MS)
    • Multielemental single cell/single particle-ICP-ToF-MS
    • (Bio-)Imaging via laserablation-ICP-MS
    • Isotope analysis via multicollector ICP-MS and Thermion-mass spectrometry
    • Glow discharge-sectorfield-mass spectrometry
    • Non-metal analysis (e.g. fluorine) via high resolution-continuumsource-graphite furnace-molecular absorption spectrometry (HR-CS-GFMAS)
    • Solid sampling devices
    • NOH and CS instrumentation for the analysis of solid inorganic samples
    • Metal free clean room (ISO class 6)
    • Several sample preparation systems (e.g. microwave digestion)

  • Publications of the division

    In the database PUBLICA you will find publications by BAM employees.

    Publications of the division Inorganic Trace Analysis in PUBLICA

    PUBLICA

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