Mass spectrometry instrumentation
Agilent 7700x ICP-MS
- Metals analysis
- Mid ppt to low ppb detection range
- Option to detect in four different gas modes to gain optimum detection of multiple metals or interferences in a sample
- Autosampler can hold 21, 50 mL falcon tubes and 180, 15 mL falcon tubes
Shimadzu 8040 LC-Triple Quadrupole MS with PDA and fluorescence detection
- Nexera X2 LC-30AD UHPLC system with a binary solvent system
- ESI triple quadrupole mass spectrometer
- SPD-M30A diode array detector
- RF-20A XS fluorescence detector
- Quantitative analysis or structural elucidation of small molecules
- Mid ppt to low ppb detection limits
- Mass range: 50 to 2000 Da
- Temperature controlled autosampler holds 324, 2 mL RAM vials
- Column oven
- Acquired through Shimadzu Grant
Thermo Scientific Altis LC-Triple Quadrupole MS
- UltiMate 3000 UHPLC System with a binary solvent system which allows four different mobile phases, but only two at a time
- TSQ Altis ESI triple quadrupole mass spectrometer
- Online concentration capabilities
- Online concentration detection range in low ppt
- Standard detection range mid ppt to low ppb
- Mass range: 5 to 2000 Da
- Temperature controlled autosampler holds 162, 2 mL RAM vials, and 30, 10 mL vials and column oven
- Run by laboratory staff only and primarily used for large projects
Thermo Scientific LTQ Orbitrap XL with Nano LC and HPLC capabilities
- High-resolution mass spectrometer
- Resolution 60,000 at m/z 400 at a scan rate of 1 Hz
- Up to 100,000 resolution
- External calibration and lock mass for 1 ppm error
- Easy nano-LC 1200
- Waters Alliance HT 2795 HPLC with temperature-controlled autosampler which holds 144, 2 mL RAM vials and column oven.
- Quaternary pump up to 4,500 psi
- Mass range
- Linear Ion trap: 50-2000 m/z
- Orbi-Trap: 200-4000 m/z
- Sensitivity sub-femtomol range for peptides
Bruker UltrafleXtreme MALDI-TOF/TOF
- 300-350 kDa mass range with linear mode
- 300-6 kDa mass range with reflection mode and LIFT fragmentation
- CID or LID to analyze the structure of proteins, RNA/DNA, and polymers
- FlexImaging for MALDI Imaging Mass Spectrometry
- BioTools for protein identification on Mascott database
- BioTyper for bacteria culture Identification
- SCiLs software package for 3D imaging and statistical analysis
Waters 2695/ZQ
- Waters 2695 HPLC with temperature-controlled autosampler which holds 120, 2 mL RAM vials and column oven
- 4500 psi maximum pressure quaternary pump
- ESI source with quadrupole analyzer from 50-2000 Da
- Source fragmentation by adjustable cone voltage
- Nominal mass accuracy for direct injection or chromatographic analysis
- 20 ng/mL to 10 μg/mL; Acetonitrile, Methanol, Water, or Isopropanol
Agilent 6890/5973 Semivolatiles
- Automatic Liquid Sampler holds 100, 2 mL RAM vials
- EI source and quadrupole analyzer from 10-600 Da
- Rxi-5ms column for walk-up analysis of organic reactions and quantitative analysis of semivolatiles
- Chemstation software and NIST database searching of fragmentation patterns
- Optional CDS8000 Thermal Desorption, Purge and Trap, and Pyrolyzer
Agilent 6890/5973 Volatiles
- EI source and quadrupole analyzer from 10-600 Da or FID
- Restek RTX-Volatiles column
- Chemstation software and NIST database searching of fragmentation patterns
- Optional CDS8000 Thermal Desorption, Purge and Trap, and Pyrolyzer
- Optional Solatek 72 Purge and Trap autosampler with Velocity XPT Concentrator
- Optional manual SPME analysis
CDS8000 Concentrator
- Manual purge and trap
- Manual thermal desorption tube sampling from active air sampling unit
- Bulk headspace analysis options:
- 10 x 9.5 cm Large BDHS
- 13 x 3 cm (a silanized steel tray is available that sits in the center of the tube long ways, for height of 1.5 cm)
- 15 x 1.5 cm test tube sampler
- Cryofocusing available
Solatek 72 Purge and Trap with Velocity XPT Concentrator
- 72 vial autosampler for 40 mL purge and trap vials
- In vial purge with heated sampler and stirring for soils and sludges
- Add 0-20 mL of water before sampling vapor
- 10 mL purge and trap liquid sampling sparging vessel
- Three optional internal standard or calibrant addition vials online
Perkin Elmer Clarus 580/Turbomatrix 40 Headspace GC-FID-ECD
- 40 vial autosampler for headspace analysis
- Preheats samples during GC run to save time
- Flame Ionization Detector and Electron Capture Detectors available
- Minimum sample temperature of 35 °C
Waters 2695/996 PDA
- Waters 2695 HPLC with 120 sample autosampler with column oven
- 4500 psi maximum pressure quaternary pump
- UV detector with Empower software package for quantitative analysis
Waters 2795/LCT-XE w/ high-pressure source
- 2795 autosampler (150 samples, temperature-controlled, parallel injection for high throughput), quaternary pump (4000 psi), column oven
- ESI/APCI/EScI, high-pressure source for non-covalent interactions.ESI/APCI/EScI, high-pressure source for non-covalent interactions.
- TOF analyzer up to 30,000 m/z setting (functionally ~5-8,000 max)
- HRMS analysis and Maximum Entropy algorithm for protein charge deconvolution
