TIMS and ICP mass spectrometry

The mass spectrometry laboratories house an extensive array of analytical equipment. 2013 saw the installation of three new Multi -Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometers (MC-ICP-MS):  a Nu Instruments Nu Plasma II and two Thermo Scientific Neptune Plus instruments. Moreover, a Thermo Scientific Element XR, a single collector, high resolution, magnetic sector ICP-MS instrument was acquired. In 2017, an Agilent 8800 Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS (group of Professor Heather Stoll ) was installed. The labs also house a Nu Instruments large geometry Nu Plasma 1700 MC-ICP-MS, with high mass resolution capability.

A wide array of sample introduction systems exist for each instrument, including a number of desolvating  and conventional wet plasma systems. An Australian Scientific Instruments RESOlution SE excimer ArF laser (193 nm) laser is also available, with the option be coupled to any of the ICP-MS instruments. Separate labs house a Thermo Scientific Triton thermal ionisation mass spectrometer (TIMS) and a Perkin Elmer Elan DRC-e ICP quadrupole mass spectrometer.