Mass Detection Education Package
Prepare your students for future careers in analytical science
Enable your undergraduate students to generate and interpret mass data themselves through a theoretical and practical course using modern analytical mass spectrometry. Waters Mass Detection Education Package is a cost-effective and convenient solution that contains everything you need to get started quickly.
The complete package includes both demonstrator and student handbooks, tutorial videos, a fully operational mass spectrometer, a chemicals kit, and MassLynx Software data acquisition and processing workstation with prepopulated methods. System choice is dictated by sampling, either by direct injection or by Atmospheric Solids Analysis Probe, (ASAP) using an ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector or RADIAN ASAP Direct Mass Detector, respectively.
Upon completion of the course, students will understand:
- Instrumentation: inlet, ion source, ionization techniques, mass analyzer, ion detection, and data acquisition.
- Instrument operation: sample introduction, data acquisition, polarity switching (positive and negative modes), full scan versus selected ion monitoring, and continuum versus centroid data.
- Interpretation of mass spectra: m/z, monoisotopic mass versus average mass, isotope patterns, adducts, fragmentation, multiple charges, and the nitrogen rule.
Mass Detection Education Package
Overview
- Prepare undergraduates for future careers in analytical science with a hands-on experience exploring the fundamentals of mass spectrometry, like mass-to-charge ratio, mass spectral interpretation, and more
- Support laboratory demonstrators with integrated course information including detailed handbooks plus multi-media tutorial videos to facilitate instruction and understanding
- Gain a deeper understanding in the principles of mass spectrometry with cutting-edge instrumentation designed to be intuitive to use, robust and pre-optimized that can be operated without specialized training
- Flexible configurations to facilitate teaching, from direct sample introduction using an isocratic LC pump and the ACQUITY diverter valve with the ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector. Expand the level of teaching by introducing chromatography with the addition of HPLC or UHPLC.
- Alternatively, RADIAN ASAP Direct Mass Detector combines both ASAP technology and single quadrupole mass spectrometry enabling the direct analysis of volatile and semi-volatile, solid and liquid samples without the need for sample preparation. ASAP offers features such as the ability to apply a temperature ramp, or thermal gradient, separating components based on their boiling points.
- Familiarize students with data acquisition and processing with MassLynx Software, conveniently prepopulated with experiment methods and sample lists to help busy academic laboratories get up and running quickly.
Recommended Use: For enabling students to generate and interpret mass data through theoretical and practical sessions.
Integrated course learning materials for students and demonstrators
Content developed by academic partners and Waters experts is provided in step-by-step handbooks for students and demonstrators that includes practical experiments to support students in gaining a solid understanding of the fundamentals of mass spectrometry (MS). The Student Handbook includes the instrumentation and its component parts, instrument operation, acquisition and spectral interpretation, and the generation of characteristic mass data as the basis of modern compound identification.
The complementary Laboratory Demonstrator Handbook offers laboratory demonstrators additional information for each topic to enhance the student experience and learning, model answers for the experiment questions, and includes engaging multimedia video content to enrich the teaching of the series of experiments.
Cutting-edge mass spectral data in a compact instrument
Intuitive and robust, the ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector is the perfect tool to introduce undergraduates to the principles of mass spectrometry and mass spectral interpretation. Pre-optimized and intuitive to use, it can be operated without specialized training. The typical adjustments required by traditional MS systems are avoided.
Start up at the beginning of class is fast and simple. With the press of a single button, the ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector is ready to run within minutes. Once students have finished running their experiments, they simply power off, reducing typical running costs when compared to traditional MS systems. At just 35 cm x 75cm including an integrated pump, the ACQUITY QDa has the same footprint as an ACQUITY LC, so it fits easily into most lab spaces.
Get everything your students need to succeed
The ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector is supplied with a MassLynx Software workstation for intuitive data acquisition and intelligent processing. To streamline the laboratory experiments, methods and sample lists are pre-populated to maximize students’ time spent on acquiring, processing, and analyzing their experimental data.
Direct mass detection
If preferred, an Atmospheric Solids Analysis Probe (ASAP) can educate students on rapid direct analysis of volatile and semi-volatile solid and liquid samples without the need for sample preparation. ASAP applies a temperature ramp or thermal gradient to separate components based on their different boiling points. Waters RADIAN ASAP Direct Mass Detector provides answers in seconds, allowing students to directly measure their compounds during, as well as after the synthesis, resulting in a well-suited for busy academic laboratories needing a robust and reliable solution.
Straightforward sample introduction
Using an isocratic LC pump and the ACQUITY Diverter Valve, students have the ideal learning experience on how to introduce samples to the ACQUITY QDa Mass Detector. You can avoid the typical cost, maintenance, and training normally required for a chromatography inlet to introduce mass spectral data. A chemical standards kit is included and contains all chemicals required to run the experiments described in the demonstrator handbook. To expand the level of teaching to include chromatography, an HPLC or UHPLC can easily be switched in.
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