Infrastructure
AMGC - Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (IRMS) (IRMS lab) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
High-Tech Saltwater Wave Flume (Saltwater Wave flume) Ghent University
The high-tech saltwater wave flume, is integrated in the multidisciplinary marine and maritime research facility of Ghent University at Ostend Science Park (OSP). It bridges the gap between small-scale, artificial lab studies and complex, multidisciplinary, expensive field studies, bringing the ocean into the laboratory and engineering sustainable marine ecosystems for environmental and human health. This contrasts the majority of the wave flumes, which are often only focussed on maritime engineering disciplines and rarely bridge the gap to life science. This flume combines 3 crucial ...
AMGC - Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Lab (ICP-MS lab) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A Neptune Multi-Collector ICP-MS also from Thermo Instrument is available in Ghent university in the framework of a joint purchase/project.
AMGC Triple-Quadrupole Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (QQQ-ICP-MS), coupled with excimer-based nanosecond laser ablation (LA) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (HR-ICP-MS; LA-ICP-MS; ICP-QQQ; HPLC-ICP-MS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Multicollector-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectometer (MC-ICP-MS) Ghent University
The Thermo Scientific Neptune XT multi-collector ICP mass spectrometer is an instrument developed for high-precision isotopic analysis of metals, metalloids and some non-metals. The instrument is therefore equipped with a robust and efficient ion source (the ICP, or inductively coupled plasma), a double-focusing sector-field mass spectrometer with Nier-Johnson geometry for separation of the ion beams based on the ratio of mass to charge of the respective ions and an array of 9 faraday cups for simultaneous monitoring of the selected ion beams. Under ideal conditions, a measurement ...
AMGC - Fourier Transform Infra-Red Lab (FTIR) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Time-of-Flight ICP - Mass Spectrometer (ToF-ICP-MS) Ghent University
ICP mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is the most powerful technique for the determination of elements at the (ultra)trace level. Most ICP-MS instruments are equipped with a quadrupole filter for mass analysis. With a quadrupole filter, the intensity for only one nuclide can be measured at any given time because at any given time only ions are transmitted within a narrow mass range (about half an atomic mass unit). For multi-element determination, scanning (continuous shifting of the mass window) or peak jumping (discontinuous shifting of the mass window) must be used. ToF-ICP-MS is a version of ...
Ultrafast tandem ICP mass spectrometer for interference-free and high-sensitivity monitoring of transient signals (ICP-MS/MS) Ghent University
ICP mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is a particularly powerful technique for the determination of elements at trace and ultrasonic levels. When using a quadrupole filter to separate the ions from each other according to their mass-to-charge (m/z) ratio, only modest mass resolution is obtained. Ions differing by less than half an atomic mass unit are not separated from each other, so spectral interference occurs. To avoid spectral interference, a tandem ICP-MS (ICP-MS/MS) device is equipped with a collision/reaction cell (CRC) preceded by a quadrupole filter (Q1). In an MS/MS mode, Q1 selects ...