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 service operations for sample analysis that requires the ultrahigh resolution and high mass accuracy of FT-ICR. Research falls in the areas of biomolecular analysis, hydrogen-deuterium exchange and 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 Produces Water-Soluble Chemicals from Asphalt
29 March 2021
Road asphalt is made from aggregate (rocks) mixed with a "binder” from the residue remaining after extraction of gasoline and oils from petroleum crude oil. Until recently, this binder was thought to be chemically unreactive. Maglab scientists subjected a thin film of asphalt binder to simulated sunlight in the laboratory and used ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry to reveal thousands of new, water-soluble chemicals that could be released into the environment by rainfall.
Featured Publications
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 …
Identification of abnormal hemoglobin from human blood
L. He, et al., Clinical Chemistry 65 (8), 986-994 (2019) See Science Highlight or Read online …
1.1 billion-year-old porphyrins evidence photosynthesis 600 million years earlier than previously established
N. Guineli, et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 115, 1-9 (2018) 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