The Institute of Analytical Chemistry has access to all mass spectrometers situated in the Core Facility Mass Spectrometry (CFMS).

Further Infrastructure at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry:

Clean room laboratories for elemental ultra-trace analysis

  • Clean room laboratory class ISO 7 (including clean benches class ISO 5)
  • Clean room laboratory class ISO 8

Analytical Equipment

  • Inductively coupled plasma sector field mass spectrometer (ICP-SFMS, Element 2, Thermo Scientific)
  • Inductively coupled plasma quadrupole mass spectrometer with collision/reaction cell (ICP CC/RC-QMS, NexION 2000, PerkinElmer)
  • Liquid chromatography-ion trap mass spectrometry system with electrospray ion source and chip cube interface (LC-ITMS, XTC ultra, Agilent Technologies)
  • Gas chromatography - mass spectrometry system (GC-MS, Agilent Technologies)
  • Separation systems for elemental speciation analysis via on-line combination with ICP-MS
    • High performance SEC system (ACQUITY UPLC H-class Bio, Waters)
    • Biocompatible 2D LC-System with turbulent flow chromatography (Transcend, Thermo Fisher)
    • Biocompatible LC-System (Ultimate 3000, Dionex)
    • Ion Chromatography System (ICS 5000+, Thermo Fisher)
    • Capillary Electrophoresis system (3DCE, Agilent)
    • Inert and metal-free HPLC system (NexSAR, Perkin Elmar)

  • Gas chromatography system (Clarus 500 GC, Perkin Elmer)
  • Microwave Digestion (Multiwave 3000, Anton Paar)
  • Microwave Digestion (Multiwave 7000, Anton Paar)
  • PrepFAST-MCTM (Elemental Scientific)
  • Hydrid ICP Generation System (HG-MP2-4-A)
  • SPE-Robot (GX-271 ASPEC, Gilson)