Mass spectrometry is an important tool when specific compounds and materials must be identified with a high degree of precision. Among its uses are food quality and safety, drug testing, analyzing pesticide residue, protein identification via peptide mapping and carbon dating. Avantor® offers a comprehensive range of products to meet your mass spectrometry needs.
With a range of instrumentation available from Avantor, we can help you find the right type of mass spectrometer to meet your laboratory needs.
For your GC-MS applications, low bleed stationary phases are very important. Avantor provides a wide range of polarity GC phases designed for mass spec applications.
For your LC-MS applications, solvents that feature high UV transmittance, low acidity and alkalinity, and low particulates ensure minimal interference/background in MS traces.
Avantor offers a comprehensive line of protein reagents to use with protein assays to measure the total protein concentration of a sample compared to a standard. See what we have to offer.
Chromatography columns are an essential tool for separating compounds from a sample mixture to allow for specific sample collection. Avantor carries different selectivity columns so you can find the one that’s best for your application.
Avantor can provide your lab with a variety of kits, mixture solutions and collagen matrices that you can use for many essential laboratory functions.
Avantor carries a wide range of equipment, products and supplies commonly used in mass spectrometry. Take a look at everything we have to offer.
Rapid High throughput LC-MS/MS separations are achievable using a new format column, find out more here.
Mass spectrometry is an important tool for identifying specific compounds or materials with a high degree of precision. This technique has many applications ranging from food quality and safety to carbon dating.
In the most basic terms, mass spectrometry is a sensitive technique used to detect, identify and quantitate molecules based on the molecule’s mass-to-charge (m/z) ratio.
All mass spectrometers have three primary components; an ion source, a mass analyzer, and an ion detector. Samples are prepared and loaded into the mass spectrometer in either liquid, gas, or dried form and are then vaporized and ionized by the ion source. There are variations of these components in each type of mass spectrometer, which offer a diverse range of options for testing different physical properties of samples and data collection.
There are numerous applications for mass spectrometry, including both qualitative and quantitative uses. Mass spectrometry is most commonly used in analytical laboratories for the study of physical, chemical, or biological properties of compounds.
Additional applications of mass spectrometry:
This makes mass spectrometry an ideal tool in drug discovery, clinical testing, genomics, geology and environmental studies on food and soil. Among the many applications in medicine and genomics, mass spectrometry can be used for the characterization of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), as well as in rapid toxic screenings for detecting toxins in blood.
