Issue 9, 2018

Combustion generated nanomaterials: online characterization via an ICP-MS based technique. Part II: resolving power for heterogeneous matrices

Abstract

Among the available online techniques to characterize combustion generated nanomaterials, the recently developed RDD-SMPS-ICP-MS (rotating disc diluter-scanning mobility particle sizer-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry) setup is here suggested, due to its ability to provide simultaneously size-resolved elemental and quantitative information with a high time resolution. The successful calibration strategy presented in Part I will be applied here. To assess the resolving power of the technique regarding the elemental composition, two different applications with complex heterogeneous matrixes were considered: a mixture of several metal chlorides particles generated by the reaction of metal oxides (PbO, CdO, CuO, ZnO) with CaCl2·2H2O and secondary formed ZnO nano-objects released during the combustion of impregnated wood. The latter, especially, allowed considering the effect of the heterogeneous nature of a realistic process gas sample, where several gas species are emitted. The results of these experiments showed the ability of the SMPS-ICPMS system to distinguish and quantify the single contribution of a specific element in the overall particle size distribution (PSD).

Graphical abstract: Combustion generated nanomaterials: online characterization via an ICP-MS based technique. Part II: resolving power for heterogeneous matrices

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 mar 2018
Accepted
07 avq 2018
First published
07 avq 2018

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2018,33, 1500-1505

Combustion generated nanomaterials: online characterization via an ICP-MS based technique. Part II: resolving power for heterogeneous matrices

D. Foppiano, M. Tarik, E. Gubler Müller and C. Ludwig, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2018, 33, 1500 DOI: 10.1039/C8JA00067K

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