PMID- 28745635
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180424
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1940-087X (Electronic)
IS  - 1940-087X (Linking)
IP  - 125
DP  - 2017 Jul 11
TI  - A Practical Guide on Coupling a Scanning Mobility Sizer and Inductively Coupled 
      Plasma Mass Spectrometer (SMPS-ICPMS).
LID - 10.3791/55487 [doi]
LID - 55487
AB  - A large variety of analytical methods are available to characterize particles in 
      aerosols and suspensions. The choice of the appropriate technique depends on the 
      properties to be determined. In many fields information about particle size and 
      chemical composition are of great importance. While in aerosol techniques 
      particle size distributions of gas-borne particles are determined online, their 
      elemental composition is commonly analyzed offline after an appropriate sampling 
      and preparation procedure. To obtain both types of information online and 
      simultaneously, a hyphenated setup was recently developed, including a Scanning 
      Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS) and an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass 
      Spectrometer (ICPMS). This allows first to classify the particles with respect to 
      their mobility diameter, and then to determine their number concentration and 
      elemental composition in parallel. A Rotating Disk Diluter (RDD) is used as the 
      introduction system, giving more flexibility regarding the use of different 
      aerosol sources. In this work, a practical guide is provided describing the 
      different steps for establishing this instrumentation, and how to use this 
      analysis tool. The versatility of this hyphenated technique is demonstrated in 
      example measurements on three different aerosols generated out of a) a salt 
      solution, b) a suspension, and c) emitted by a thermal process.
FAU - Tarik, Mohamed
AU  - Tarik M
AD  - Bioenergy and Catalysis Laboratory (LBK), Energy and Environment Research 
      Division (ENE), Paul Scherrer Institute; mohamed.tarik@psi.ch.
FAU - Foppiano, Debora
AU  - Foppiano D
AD  - Bioenergy and Catalysis Laboratory (LBK), Energy and Environment Research 
      Division (ENE), Paul Scherrer Institute; Environmental Engineering Institute 
      (IIE), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole; 
      Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).
FAU - Hess, Adrian
AU  - Hess A
AD  - Bioenergy and Catalysis Laboratory (LBK), Energy and Environment Research 
      Division (ENE), Paul Scherrer Institute; Institute for Atmospheric and Climate 
      Science ETH Zurich.
FAU - Ludwig, Christian
AU  - Ludwig C
AD  - Bioenergy and Catalysis Laboratory (LBK), Energy and Environment Research 
      Division (ENE), Paul Scherrer Institute; Environmental Engineering Institute 
      (IIE), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole; 
      Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Video-Audio Media
DEP - 20170711
PL  - United States
TA  - J Vis Exp
JT  - Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
JID - 101313252
RN  - 0 (Aerosols)
SB  - IM
MH  - Aerosols/*chemistry
MH  - Mass Spectrometry/*methods
MH  - Nanoparticles
MH  - Particle Size
MH  - Spectrum Analysis/*methods
PMC - PMC5612223
EDAT- 2017/07/27 06:00
MHDA- 2018/04/25 06:00
PMCR- 2017/07/11
CRDT- 2017/07/27 06:00
PHST- 2017/07/27 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/07/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/04/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/07/11 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 55487 [pii]
AID - 10.3791/55487 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - J Vis Exp. 2017 Jul 11;(125):55487. doi: 10.3791/55487.