Infrastructure
AMGC * Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer Delta V Plus Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Stable isotope analyses of H, C, O, N in a variety of samples (rocks, water, organic matter etc)
2007/1/1
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 - X-ray Fluorescence Lab (Micro-XRF; pXRF) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
AMGC * Micro-XRay Fluorescence Spectrometer (Micro-XRF) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometers (NMR) Ghent University
The NMR Expertise Center (NMR EC) currently (December 2022) has 5 NMR spectrometers of different field strengths going from 300MHz to 700MHz. Each spectrometer is equipped with one or more detection probes that allow to interrogate organic molecules in solution about their molecular structure, behavior in solution, internal dynamics, intermolecular interactions, ... . Examples of these organic molecules include natural and synthesis products, polymers, metabolites, complex peptides, nucleic acids and sugars. Each probe has multiple channels where a diversity of atomic nuclei can be ...
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 ...
AMGC * High Resolution Sector Field Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (HR-ICP-MS, Element XR) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Determination of element concentration and isotopic ratios in various samples
2007/0/0