Code
01B06820
Duration
01 December 2020 → 30 November 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Analytical separation and detection techniques
- Analytical spectrometry
- Instrumental methods
- Spectroscopic methods
- Marine pollution
Keywords
Field-flow fractionation
ICP-MS
micro/nanoplastics
engineered nanomaterials
subcellular particles
exosomes
proteins
trace element concentrations
isotope ratios
Project description
We aspire the purchase of field-flow fractionation (FFF) equipment as a versatile separation technique. It can be seamlessly coupled to a multi-angle light scattering (MALS), UV/VIS and/or fluorescence detector, as well as to advanced ICP-mass spectrometers, thus providing detailed characterization – including particle size, elemental and isotopic composition – of different types of nanoparticles including micro- and nanoplastics, engineered nanoparticles, subcellular particles, exosomes, and proteins.