Seminar Title: "The Origins and Development of ICP-Mass Spectrometry: A 20 Year Research Project in Instrumentation."
This talk is a personal trip through the author’s grad school and postdoc days, when there were no plugand-play ICP-MS instruments. The talk also describes subsequent instrumentation developments that improved the capabilities of ICP-MS, i. e., collision cells to remove polyatomic ions, and GC and LC separations to provide speciation information. Interactions with scientific users and instrument companies played a big role in these developments, as will be described.
Link to Professor Houk's Research: http://www.chem.iastate.edu/faculty/Robert_Houk