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The Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART-MS) desorbs molecules from surfaces such as leaves, currency, polymers, and packaging materials, directly introducing them to the Orbitrap inlet. Minimal sample preparation is required for most analyses.
Applications include:
- Archaeology and Art History: Pigment, ink, paper characterization
- Environmental: Hormones in aquatic environments; phthalate contamination; UV filters in rivers; organic aerosol analysis; pesticide residues on leaves
- Food Science: Melamine adulteration in milk, flame retardants in fish, PVCs in packaging, reactive sulfur compounds in garlic breath
- Forensics: Explosives residues in fingerprints, drugs on currency
- Materials Science: Stabilizers in plastics, thiol metabolites, VOCs from microbes
- Oil & Gas: Polar fractions of oil, insoluble residues
Address:
242 Energy and Environment Laboratory Building
753 Hastings Road
University Park, PA 16802