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Jian Wang, Christian Ludwig, Andrea Testino, Tianyu Cen
The presence of metal salts has become one of the major limitations for measuring metallic nanoparticles (NPs) in single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICP-MS). Their presence generates a background signal in spICP-MS that can be ...
2024Siloxane compounds in biogas from manure and mixed organic waste: Method development and speciation analysis with GC-ICP-MS
Christian Ludwig, Debora Foppiano, Mohamed Tarik
A novel method for the determination of linear and cyclic siloxane compounds (L2, L3, D3, D4, D5, and D6) in biogas was developed by combining gas chromatography (GC) with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Using a continuous liquid que ...
2020Direct determination of niobium at the low nanogram level in mineral waters and freshwaters
Michaël Bensimon, Montserrat Filella, David-Julien Magnenat
The increasing use of elements such as Nb and Ta in green and information technologies makes it necessary to develop appropriate analytical methods for studying their environmental and ecotoxicological behaviour. This paper describes the first time Nb has ...
Royal Society of Chemistry2014Biogenic and biomass burning organic aerosol in a boreal forest at Hyytiala, Finland, during HUMPPA-COPEC 2010
Submicron aerosol particles were collected during July and August 2010 in Hyytiala, Finland, to determine the composition and sources of aerosol at that boreal forest site. Submicron particles were collected on Teflon filters and analyzed by Fourier transf ...
Copernicus Publications2013Development and Application of Devices for Online Trace Element Analysis of Thermal Process Gases from Woody Feedstocks
When using natural or waste wood in thermo-chemical conversion processes, the presence of a number of heteroatoms (e.g. sulfur, chlorine, potassium and sodium or heavy metals) may hinder the processes themselves as well as pose a threat to equipment and/or ...
EPFL2012Lowering the detection limit for arsenic: Implications for a future practical quantitation limit
The practical quantitation limit (PCIL) for arsenic (As) is currently orders of magnitude higher than its nonenforceable, health-based standard in California. Analytical limitations caused by chloride (CO interference can be overcome using high-resolution, ...
2007ELNES at magic angle conditions
If one needs to cancel the effects of the anisotropy of the sample in a EELS experiment in the TEM, a particular couple of values for the collection and convergence angle must be used, called magic angle conditions (MAC). Recent developments in the theory ...
2006On an exact analytical solution of the Boussinesq equation
A useful exact analytical solution of the Boussinesq equation is discussed and is the most general solution presently available, and in particular yields a solution for a finite aquifer. It provides insight into the physical processes arising during the ex ...
2000In vivo observation of lactate methyl proton magnetization transfer in rat C6 glioma
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) measurements of the lactate methyl proton in rat brain C6 glioma tissue acquired in the presence of an off- resonance irradiation field, analyzed using coupled Bloch equation formalism assuming two spin pools, demonstr ...
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