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3rd floor Café Commons of the Millennium Science Complex
Newly acquired mass spectrometry instrumentation has greatly expanded organic molecular analysis capabilities at Penn State. This talk will highlight exciting applications in fields such as forensics, art history, food science, oil and gas, environmental contaminants of emerging concern, and astrobiology–including the technology behind the discovery of organic matter preserved in ancient Martian sediments. New capabilities include: high-resolution LC-Orbitrap and GC/triple quad mass spectrometry, direct analysis in real time (DART), and pyrolysis capabilities which can drastically reduce sample preparation steps, increasing throughput.