This facility is charged with developing and exploiting the unique capabilities of Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry, and leads the world in instrument and technique development as well as novel applications of FT-ICR mass spectrometry.
The facility features directors for instrumentation, biological applications, environmental, petrochemical applications, and user services as well as a machinist, technician and numerous rotating postdocs who are available to collaborate and/or assist with projects.
The facility provides sample analysis that requires the ultrahigh resolution and high mass accuracy of FT-ICR. Currently active research areas include biological, environmental, and petrochemical analysis. The facility's four FT-ICR mass spectrometers feature high magnetic fields – including the world-record 21 tesla – and are compatible with multiple ionization and fragmentation techniques.
HOW TO APPLY
Our magnets are open to all scientists — for free — via a competitive process and we accept proposals throughout the year.
- Prepare documentation
A proposal and prior results report are required. - Create a user profile
Returning users simply need to log in. - Submit a request online
Upload files and provide details about the proposed experiment. - Report your results
By year's end, submit information on publications resulting from your experiment.
Please review the MagLab User Policies and Procedures before submitting your proposal and experimentor contact Facility Director Chris Hendrickson with questions. View User FAQs.
Latest Science Highlight
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Sunlight converts plastics into diverse chemical mixtures
25 October 2021
Sunlight can chemically transform plastics from consumer plastic bags into complex chemical mixtures that leach into the ocean. Understanding the impact of plastic pollution requires advanced analytical techniques that can identify transformed plastic molecules in water samples, and requires instrumentation only available at the Maglab.
Featured Publications
Sunlight converts plastics into diverse chemical mixtures
A. N. Walsh, et al., Environ. Sci. Technol. 55 (18), 12383–12392 (2021), See Science Highlight or Read online …
Dissolved Organic Matter in Arctic Rivers: Synchronous Molecular Stability, Shifting Sources and Subsidies
M.I. Behnke, et al., Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35, e2020GB006871 (2021), See Science Highlight or Read online …
Sunlight Produces Water-Soluble Chemicals from Asphalt
S. F. Niles, et al., Environmental Science and Technology 54 (24), 8830-8836 (2020), Dataset, See Science Highlight or Read online …
For more information
Contact one of the individuals listed below or Fellow users who are experts on the use of ICR Facility.
- Chris Hendrickson, ICR Facility Director
- Amy McKenna, Manager, ICR User Program
- Alan Marshall, Chief Scientist for Ion Cyclotron Resonance