MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES) for a Diverse Range of Scientific Applications in Greater Saint Louis

MRI：购买电感耦合等离子体发射光谱仪 (ICP-OES)，用于大圣路易斯的各种科学应用

• 批准号: 1626501
• 负责人: Paul Bracher
• 金额: $ 7.43万
• 依托单位: Saint Louis University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1626501&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Inductively; Coupled; Plasma

With this award from the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) and Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Programs, Professor Paul Bracher from Saint Louis University and colleagues Daniel Warren and Elizabeth Hasenmueller have acquired an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES). This instrument is a necessary analytical tool used to identify and quantify metals in solutions. Consequently, it has broad use in applications such as analysis of biological solutions, water supplies and watersheds, food production and chemical reactions. The instrument is also used to train undergraduate and graduate students in this basic tool. It enables hands-on citizen-science activities such as analysis of local water supplies and is made available to other researchers beyond the St. Louis University community. The proposal is aimed at enhancing research and education at all levels, especially by researchers at St. Louis university in areas such as: (a) prospective roles of inorganic cations in the origin of life, (b) the geochemistry of surface waters, shallow groundwaters, and soils, (c) ion-exchange in mineralized tissue with physiological pH regulation, (d) earth science to understand water transformations in the critical zone at the interface between water, air, soil and rock, (e) transport of sodium contamination from road salt, (f) wastewater contamination from sewer overflows using tracers, and (g) how mineralized tissues buffer perturbations to acid-base homeostasis in reptiles, amphibians and mammals.

凭借主要研究仪器（MRI）和化学研究仪器和设施计划的这一奖项，来自圣刘易斯大学的Paul Bracher教授及其同事丹尼尔沃伦和伊丽莎白哈森穆勒获得了电感耦合等离子体发射光谱仪（ICP-OES）。该仪器是用于识别和定量溶液中金属的必要分析工具。因此，它在生物溶液、供水和流域、食品生产和化学反应分析等应用中有着广泛的用途。该仪器还用于培训本科生和研究生使用这一基本工具。它使动手公民科学活动，如分析当地的供水，并提供给其他研究人员超越圣路易斯大学社区。 该提案旨在加强各级的研究和教育，特别是圣路易斯大学的研究人员在以下领域的研究和教育：（a）无机阳离子在生命起源中的潜在作用，（B）地表沃茨、浅层地下沃茨和土壤的地球化学，（c）具有生理pH调节的矿化组织中的离子交换，（d）地球科学，以了解水、空气、土壤和岩石交界处临界区的水变化，（e）道路用盐造成的钠污染的迁移，（f）使用示踪剂造成的下水道溢流造成的废水污染，以及（g）矿化组织如何缓冲爬行动物、两栖动物和哺乳动物酸碱平衡的扰动。