V035-02
Life Beyond Neptune: The Future of MC-ICP-MS

Monday, 14 December 2020: 07:04
Virtual
Grant Craig, Hauke Vollstaedt, Claudia Bouman, Nicholas S Lloyd and Johannes B Schwieters, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen, Germany
Recorded Presentation
Abstract:
It has now been over twenty years since the initial development of multicollector inductively coupled mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS). Once the potential of MC-ICP-MS to measure high precision isotope ratios across the entire periodic table was realized 1–4, it was not long before the popularity of the technique grew. Since the inception of MC-ICP-MS we have seen the periodic integration of new instrumental design features, which has only aided that growth. Many of those advanced technologies were pioneered on the Neptune™ Series MC-ICP-MS from Thermo Fisher Scientific™, which spearheaded the introduction of the Jet Interface 5 (for greatly increased sensitivity, especially in dry plasma), multi-ion counting 6 (MIC), 1013 Ω Amplifier Technology 7 as well as other significant improvements. Together they have expanded the applications available with MC-ICP-MS: by increasing sensitivity, reducing sample size and improving isotope ratio precision beyond what was previously possible. It is important for the future of MC-ICP-MS that instrumental design continues to evolve.

Here we report for the first time preliminary results collected on an entirely new MC-ICP-MS from Thermo Fisher Scientific. Redesigned from the ground up, this new MC-ICP-MS blends together and refines cutting-edge and field-proven technologies. This approach allows a number of new application possibilities to be achieved with MC-ICP-MS.

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