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JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY
卷 36, 期 10, 页码 2107-2115出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1ja00112d
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- European Union Horizon 2020 program (H2020) [720952]
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- State of Saxony
- Helmholtz Association
A new method using laser ablation time-of-flight mass spectrometry was developed to directly analyze multi-elemental particles in sediment samples. The comparison between different techniques showed that laser ablation time-of-flight mass spectrometry is well-suited for measuring low abundant elements in unextracted sediment samples.
Characterization and investigation into complex nano-fraction particle samples have traditionally been done using nebulizer single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (neb-spICP-MS). Here a method was developed and tested for the direct analysis of multi-elemental particles (MEPs) in sediment samples using laser ablation (LA-spICP-ToF-MS). A comparison between the neb-spICP-ToF-MS and LA-spICP-ToF-MS was made to determine possible differences and advantages of the techniques using standard AgAu core-shell particles and environmental samples obtained via cloud point extraction procedures of a road runoff sedimentation basin. Using the results obtained by this method comparison, comparison metrics were then used to test the usability of LA-spICP-ToF-MS on unextracted sediment. Three main groups of signals were identified, overly abundant signals which cannot be used for single-particle analysis at the chosen measurement parameters, highly abundant signals that when compared with the two previous methods produced comparable results for elemental ratios and single-particle fingerprinting. Lastly, low abundant well-defined elements such as the platinum group elements (PGEs) were ideally suited for measurement from unextracted sediment. The introduced LA-spICP-ToF-MS is likely suitable for the analysis of MEPs for groups 2 and 3 in sediment samples with minimal sample preparation (sediment homogenization, drying, and distribution of sediment on tape) and capable of MEP source allocation for the reported element groups.
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