Environment

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

View how the LDTD performs 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, 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. Paul B. Fayad, Michèle Prévost and Sebastien Sauvé, 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. Koffi Badjagbo, Alexandra Furtos, Mehran Alaee, Serge Moore and Sébastien Sauvé, DIO : 10.1021/ac901088f.
• 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. Koffi Badjagbo, Pierre Picard, Serge Moore and Sébastien Sauvé, DIO : 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

• ASMS 2009 LDTD-APCI-MS/MS : Optimization and Method Application for Selected Endrocrine Disrupting Compounds in Water Matrices(Université de Montréal, Canada and École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

• ASMS 2009 High Throughput Analysis of Some Endocrine Dirupting Compounds (EDCs) in Solid Matrices by LDTD-MS/MS. (Université de Montréal, Canada, and École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada l)

• ASMS 2008 Continuous Real-Time Trace Analysis of BTEX in Ambient Air Using Direct Sampling LDTD-APCI-MS2 System. (Université de Montréal, Canada)

• ASMS 2008 Novel determination method of anti-infectives and estrogenic endrocrine disruptors in wastewater and drinking water using LDTD-APCI-MS/MS. (Université de Montréal, Canada, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada and Environment Canada, Canada)

Posters in collaboration

• ASMS 2011 Highthroughput Screening of 1,4-butanediol Production in Fermentation Samples Using LDTD APCI-ionization Source Coupled to a Benchtop Orbitrap MS. (in collaboration with Genomatica, USA and ThermoFisher Scientific USA)
• ASMS 2009 Highly Efficient Ionization of Liquid Crystals by Laser Diode Thermal Desorption-Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization (LDTD-APCI). (in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA and Japan)
• ASMS 2007 A Rapid and Efficient MS Method for the Analysis of HMX, RDX, and TNT using Laser Diode Thermal Desorption (LDTD)-MS/MS. (in collaboration with RDDC, Canada)