System and method of trace-level analysis of chemical compounds

    公开(公告)号:US11946912B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17364517

    申请日:2021-06-30

    发明人: Daniel B. Cardin

    IPC分类号: G01N30/14 G01N30/12 G01N30/02

    摘要: Techniques disclosed herein can be used to perform a rapid, splitless injection of a sample including SVOCs and VOCs. In some embodiments, a system includes two focusing traps combined in series, one inside of a GC oven and one in a separate oven to concentrate the SVOCs inside of the GC oven and concentrate the VOCs outside of the GC oven. Heating the VOC focusing trap and reversing the flow through both focusers allows splitless injection of compounds boiling from as low as −100° C. to as high as 600° C. in a single analysis, with a narrow injection bandwidth to optimize both sensitivity and the resolving power of the analyzer.

    METABONOMICS-BASED TOBACCO LEAF MILDEWING IDENTIFICATION METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230393106A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-07

    申请号:US18192444

    申请日:2023-03-29

    IPC分类号: G01N30/72 G01N30/86 G01N30/14

    摘要: A metabonomics-based tobacco leaf mildewing identification method, which comprises: obtaining tobacco leaf samples of the same variety, and carrying out artificial mildewing on a certain amount of tobacco leaf samples to obtain mildewed tobacco leaves; measuring volatile and semi-volatile components in the tobacco leaves before and after the tobacco leaf samples are mildewed by adopting a solid phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method; performing data processing on the collected mass spectrum data to obtain the proportion content of different types of compounds in the mildewed sample and the normal sample, and further obtaining the change difference of the content of volatile compounds in the tobacco leaf sample before and after mildewing; and establishing a tobacco leaf mildewing identification model according to the discrimination variables. The accuracy and efficiency of tobacco mildew identification can be improved, the quality of tobacco shreds is improved.

    APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND QUANTIFYING ANALYTES

    公开(公告)号:US20220291177A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-15

    申请号:US17629728

    申请日:2020-07-23

    摘要: Methods and apparatuses for rapid detection and quantification of analytes are disclosed. The analytes may be opioids such as fentanyl. The method includes the use of an internal standard. The internal standard is introduced into the unknown sample. The method may involve a separation step prior to an electrochemical detection step. In some embodiments, the separation step is omitted. The analyte may be selectively adsorbed onto a surface of an electrode by maintaining a potential on the electrode during which a solution containing the dissolved analyte flows through the electrode. Performing electroanalysis on the analyte-adsorbed electrode detects and quantifies only the adsorbed analyte. In some embodiments, the internal standard is methyl vanillate.

    Method for pretreating protein in ex vivo body fluid

    公开(公告)号:US11365214B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-21

    申请号:US16462464

    申请日:2017-07-12

    摘要: The invention relates to a method for the treatment of body fluid proteins, by which proteins from body fluids such as blood or urine are extracted by adding a certain proportion of high molecular polymer solution under low temperature condition followed by denaturation and reduction by adding a certain concentration of surfactant and tris(2-carboxyethyl) phosphine (TCEP) under a high temperature condition. Subsequently, the iodoacetic acid brushes grafted on silica microspheres called as solid-phase alkylation reagents are added into protein solution, which can react rapidly with the protein sulfhydryl group. After centrifugation, the microspheres are obtained and repeatedly washed with methanol and buffer to remove interferences such as sugars, salts, surfactants, lipids to obtain high-purity proteins, and finally protease is added to digest proteins into peptides. After centrifugation, the peptide products are obtained, and directly analyzed by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) system. Compared with the traditional protein pretreatment method, the method has many advantages such as good anti-interference capability, easy operation and short pretreatment time.