Nanoparticles Analysis in Water

In this case study, Professor Arturo Keller (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California), discusses how he and his colleagues use ICP-MS to determine nanomaterials in environmental samples at exceedingly low levels of detection. The lab also uses LC/MS to study the effects of nanomaterials on plant metabolism. Professor Keller has worked with Agilent for several years and, among other Agilent solutions, has effectively used Agilent ICP-MS MassHunter software to perform multi-element nanomaterial analysis.

The increasing applications of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in various fields have raised concerns about their potential environmental and toxicological implications. Single-particle inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (sp-ICP-MS) has been suggested as a powerful tool to detect and quantitatively analyze ENMs in environmental samples even at relatively low concentrations. Prof. Yuxiong Huang presents the use of sp-ICP-MS to detect ENMs in various environmental samples using Agilent ICP-MS.