Infrastructure

The Mass Spectrometry Core Facility plays a crucial role in the institute's direction in various scientific frontiers of sustainability, defect engineering, biomedicine and synthetic biochemistry. The Facility houses various instruments for imaging mass spectrometry for the analysis of chemically and biologically modified surfaces. The MS Team is actively involved in method development to address a multitude of interdisciplinary questions, together with various groups within the institute.
Internal service measurements with ESI and MALDI (Synapt G2-Si and rapifleX) are provided as well by the mass spectrometry staff. Selected instruments (Advion CMS) can be used in self-service after the required introduction by our staff is obtained.

Service Measurements: Forms for ESI, MALDI and exact mass measurements can be found in the MPI-P intranet: forms for analytics and spectroscopy.

Self-service: The Advion ESI/APCI-MS instruments can be used in self-service after an introduction by our technical staff. Please contact Jutta Schnee or Stephan Türk to get the required introduction.

For analytical questions beyond routine measurements, please contact Hans Joachim Räder or Seah-Ling Kuan for further discussions.

Mass Spectrometers

Bruker Rapiflex MALDI-TOF/TOF MS
Specialized MALDI-TOF instrument with MS/MS fragmentation and MS imaging capability. more
Waters Synapt ESI/MALDI-Q-IM-ToF MS
ESI/MALDI-TOF instrument employing MS/MS capabilities and ion mobility separation. more
Iontof TOF.SIMS NCS
ToF-SIMS instrument providing surface spectrometry, imaging and depth-profiling of vacuum-compatible samples. more
Advion ESI-Q-MS
ESI-Q-MS instrument with sample introduction directly from TLC-plates, syringe pump or from associated UHPLC. more
Advion APCI-Q-MS
APCI/ASAP-Q-MS instrument with sample introduction via TLC plates, melting point capillary and direct injection. more

For internal users, additional details on MS techniques is provided on our intranet in the Experts-Wiki.

Auxiliary Devices

Nano/(U)HPLC 

Nano/(U)HPLC
 

for separation of protein samples before deposition onto MALDI targets

Bruker Proteineer fc II Spotter

Bruker Proteineer fc II Spotter

for deposition of LC-fractions and MALDI matrices onto MALDI plates

HTX TM Sprayer 

HTX TM Sprayer
 

for matrix-coating of MALDI Imaging samples
 

Resch MM400 ball mill

Resch MM400 ball mill

for solvent free sample preparation and homogenization

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