Environment

Being "green by nature", LDTD and environmental analysis is a natural match. BTEX analysis in urban air, endocrine disrupting chemicals and antibiotics identification in surface water show how the LDTD can perform in trace analysis situation in an environmental matrix.

View how the LDTD performed environmental analysis:

Scientific Publication

• Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2011, Advance Article. High Throughput Analysis of Solid-Bound Endocrine Disruptors by LDTD-APCI-MS/MS. Liza Viglino, Michèle Prévost and Sébastien Sauvé, DOI: 10.1039/C0EM00550.
• Analytical Chemistry, 2010 LDTD hormones.pdf (Fayad, Prevost, Sauve) Laser Diode Thermal Desorption/Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Selected Steroid Hormones in Wastewater: Method Optimization and Application
• Analytical Chemistry, 2010, 82(2), p.639-645. Laser Diode Thermal Desorption/Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Selected Steroid Hormones in Wastewater : Method Optimization and Application.DOI : 10.1021/ac902074x.
• Environmental Science & Technology, 2010, 44(2), p.600-605. Quantitative Analysis of Volatile Methylsiloxanes in Waste-to-Energy Landfill Biogases Using Direct APCI-MS/MS. Koffi Badjagbo, Martin Héroux, Mehran Alaee, Serge Moore and Sébastien Sauvé,  DOI : 10.1021/es902741k
• Analytical Chemistry, 2009, 81, p. 7288-7293. Direct Analysis of Volatile Methylsiloxanes in Gaseous Matrixes Using Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization-Tandem Mass Spectrometry. DOI : 10.1021/ac901088f CCC.
• Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2009, 20(5), p.829-836. Direct Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization-Tandem Mass Spectrometry for the Continuous Real-Time Trace Analysis of Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene and Xylenes in Ambiant Air. DOI : 10.1016/j.jasms.2008.12.021.

Application notes

• AN-0703 Environmental Analysis of Air, Water, and Soil using LDTD-APCI MS/MS.
• AN-0707 Determination of HMX, RDX, and TNT Using LDTD-APCI MS/MS Detection : 10 seconds per sample.

Posters

Posters produced by LDTD users

• MSACL 2012 Selectivity Enhancement in High Throughput Analysis of Testosterone using Differential Ion Mobility Coupled to LDTD-MS/MS
• ASMS 2009 LDTD-APCI-MS/MS : Optimization and Method Application for Selected Endrocrine Disrupting Compounds in Water Matrices.
• ASMS 2009 High Throughput Analysis of Some Endocrine Dirupting Compounds (EDCs) in Solid Matrices by LDTD-MS/MS.
• ASMS 2008 Continuous Real-Time Trace Analysis of BTEX in Ambient Air Using Direct Sampling LDTD-APCI-MS2 System.
• ASMS 2008 Novel determination method of anti-infectives and estrogenic endrocrine disruptors in wastewater and drinking water using LDTD-APCI-MS/MS.

Posters in collaboration

• ASMS 2011 High throughput Screening of 1,4-butanediol Production in Fermentation Samples Using LDTD APCI-ionization Source.
• ASMS 2009 Highly Efficient Ionization of Liquid Crystals by Laser Diode Thermal Desorption-Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization (LDTD-APCI).
• ASMS 2007 A Rapid and Efficient MS Method for the Analysis of HMX, RDX, and TNT using Laser Diode Thermal Desorption (LDTD)-MS/MS.