Celebrating Dr. Ramon Barnes’ 80th Birthday and His Scientific Contribution to the Atomic Spectrometry Community and Recommended talk at SCIX 2021,September 20 – October 1, 2021, Providence, RI


Applied Spectra, Inc. is pleased to be the sponsor of special symposium at SCIX 2021, dedicated to celebrate Dr. Ramon Barnes’ scientific contribution to the atomic spectrometry community and his 80th birthday. In the special session titled “Ramon M. Barnes & his Impact on Spectrochemical Analysis”, Dr. Gary M. Hieftje (Indiana University), Dr. Gary A. Meyer (Promerus, LLC), Dr. Steven J. Ray (The State University of New York at Buffalo), Dr. R. Kenneth Marcus (Clemson University) and Dr. Detlef Guenther (ETH Zurich) will gather to provide special lectures and pay tribute to Dr. Barnes. If you are attending SCIX 2021, attend this special symposium and be a part of this celebration.

At SCIX 2021, Dr. Jhanis Gonzalez, our Technical Director, will present an invited talk titled “193nm-Excimer Tandem LIBS and LA-ICP-MS – the case of geological samples” on Tuesday (Sept 28th) afternoon during LIBS Analytical Applications II Session. This talk highlights Applied Spectra’s latest Innovation to engineer precise LIBS gating control for excimer lasers and to enable Tandem LA-ICP-MS and LIBS capability using excimer laser ablation. Now materials with high bandgap and poor absorption property at longer wavelengths (including geological samples) can be ablated precisely and with Tandem Excimer LA – LIBS analysis, you can analyze elements that were impossible such as Fluorine during LA-ICP-MS measurements.


Tandem LA – LIBS Instrumentation Concept by Applied Spectra

This year, we have decided to skip the booth exhibition due to COVID-19 travel limitation. We will be back with the full exhibition at SCIX 2022. We look forward to connecting with all of you in 2022!

SCIX 2021 Special Symposium

Ramon M. Barnes & his Impact on Spectrochemical Analysis

  • Date/Time: September 27th, Monday, 8:30 to 10:10 AM
  • Session: 21ATOM05
  • Location: Meeting Room 553 (5th floor, Rhode Island Convention Center)
  • Session Chair: Dr. Gary M. Hieftje & Dr. R. Kenneth Marcus

Recommended Technical Presentation at SCIX 2021

Title: 193nm-Excimer Tandem LIBS and LA-ICP-MS – the case of geological samples

  • Speaker: Dr. Jhanis Gonzalez, Technical Director, Applied Spectra, Inc
  • Room: Meeting Room 550, 5th floor, Rhode Island Convention Center
  • Date /Time: September 28th, Tuesday, 1:50 to 2:10 PM
  • Session: 21LIBS04

Abstract

This instrumentation addresses the needs of the scientific community for new technology to analyze heterogeneous materials faster and simpler with improved sensitivity and precision. Inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is one of the leading technologies for elemental and isotopic analysis at trace (ug/g) and ultra-trace (ng/g) levels. ICP-MS analysis time is greatly improved by using laser ablation (LA), which becomes the sampling method instead of the acid dissolution process. However, ICP-MS analysis does not provide analysis for every element that can be present in geological samples, sometimes requiring several sample preparation methods to characterize the sample fully. In addition to the dry ablated mass aerosol that is transported to the ICP, laser ablation creates an optical plasma, in which chemical information of the sample is available as emission spectra. The measurement technique is known as laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). The innovation that such an instrument provided to the scientific community allowed for the simultaneous measurements of LIBS and LA-ICP-MS data. Moreover, the recent introduction of the multi sensor approach for LIBS allows collecting multiple LIBS signals, as well as the LA-ICP-MS in one instrument. This approach makes sense from the point of view of using all the data (data fusion) available during laser ablation sampling.

In this presentation we introduce this multi sensory technique to Excimer (193nm) based laser system and the impact on the analysis of Geological samples.


Demonstration of F map analysis using LIBS in geological samples using excimer laser ablation

Other Recommended LIBS and LA-ICP-MS Technical Presentations at SCIX 2021

SCIX 2021 will feature a series of excellent technical presentations on LIBS/LA-ICP-MS instrumentation advances and analytical applications. We are pleased to recommend technical presentations below from our research collaborators and customers who are presenting their progress on LIBS and LA-ICP-MS analysis for understanding biological/ archeological samples, polymers, thin films, forensic trace evidence, metals and more.

Notable LA and LIBS Technical Presentation at SCIX 2021

Session (21LIBS03): LIBS Analytical Applications I

  • Title: Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for Liquids
  • Presenter: Chet R. Bhatt, PhD, National Energy Technology Laboratory
  • Date and Time: Monday, September 27, 2021, 1:50 PM-2:10 PM
  • Room: Meeting Room 550 (5th Floor)

Session (21LIBS03): LIBS Analytical Applications I

  • Title: Forensic Discrimination of Copper Metal by Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)
  • Presenter: Chase Notari, BS, University of New Haven
  • Date and Time: Monday, September 27, 2021, 2:30 PM- 2:50 PM
  • Room: Meeting Room 550 (5th Floor)

Session (121LIBS05): Microanalysis Using LIBS

  • Title: Analysis of Fluorine in Polymer Samples Using LIBS via Measurement of Molecular Emission Bands
  • Presenter: Andreas Limbeck, PhD, TU Wien, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics
  • Date and Time: Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 9:50 AM- 10:10 AM
  • Room: Meeting Room 550 (5th Floor)

Session (21ATOM07): New trends in atomic spectroscopy analysis

  • Title: Multi-element matrix-match hydroxyapatite reference material for laser ablation ICP-MS and LIBS, a solution for quantitative tooth analysis for environmental medicine
  • Presenter: Mauro Martinez, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Date and Time: Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 4:10 PM- 4:30 PM
  • Room: Meeting Room 553 (5th Floor)

Session (21ATOM03): Laser Ablation

  • Title: Characterization of new float glass standards for use in forensic comparisons using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
  • Presenter: Jose Almirall, PhD, Florida International University
  • Date and Time: Wednesday, September 29, 2021, 8:30 AM- 8:50 AM
  • Room: Meeting Room 553 (5th Floor)

Session (21LIBS07): LIBS a versatile analytical tool

  • Title: Quantitative fluoride imaging of teeth using CaF emission by laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
  • Presenter: Mauro Martinez, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Date and Time: Wednesday, September 29, 2021, 4:10 PM- 4:30 PM
  • Room: Meeting Room 555 (5th Floor)

Session (21CHEM03): Chemometric Opportunities in the Forensic Sciences

  • Title: Probabilistic Reporting of Glass Evidence Comparisons from Elemental Data Acquired by LA-ICP-MS
  • Presenter: Jose Almirall, PhD, Florida International University
  • Date and Time: Thursday, September 30, 2021, 8:30 AM- 8:50 AM
  • Room: Meeting Room 556 (5th Floor)

Session (21CHEM03): Chemometric Opportunities in the Forensic Sciences

  • Title: Data analysis strategies for the elemental analysis of tire evidence
  • Presenter: Matthieu Baudelet, PhD, University of Central Florida
  • Date and Time: Thursday, September 30, 2021, 9:10 AM- 9:30 AM
  • Room: Meeting Room 556 (5th Floor)
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