Nano-particulate pressed powder tablets for LA-ICP-MS
Nano-particulate pressed powder tablets for LA-ICP-MS
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DOI:
10.1039/c4ja00007b
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发表时间:
2014-01-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Mueller, Samuel
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作者:
Garbe-Schoenberg, Dieter;Mueller, Samuel
We developed an advanced method for producing undiluted nano-particulate pressed powder tablets without addition of any binder applying wet-milling protocols in aqueous suspension using a high power planetary ball mill and agate tools. The method was tested and optimized for the milling time, ball size, ball-to-powder ratio and water-to-powder ratio using pulverized diorite DR-N containing abundant zircon crystals that are especially difficult to break down by both milling and acid-digestion methods. The new method produces nano-particulate powders with typical grain size d(50) < 1.5 mu m allowing us to form pressed powder tablets with excellent cohesion and homogeneity suitable for laser ablation micro-analysis. The optimized milling protocol was applied to a selection of other natural rock CRMs (BHVO-2, JGb-1, UB-N, AC-E, GA) covering a wide range of rock types, and formed powder tablets were analyzed by LA-ICPMS. Precision was found to be in the same range of