RE: Why6 Jan 2018 11:25
Micosaic also have other products in the pipeline, as highlighted by the following extract from their Interim Results September 2017 and the following article from March 2015 which details the potential of their Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer which is presumably a few years further down the road in its development. Gl ;-)
28/9/17
Technological enhancements
The Company has a compelling product development pipeline in support of its bioprocessing applications and in maintaining its leading position in miniaturised MS instruments and technologies. Such enhancements aim to further extend the mass range for biologics detection, and introduce new capabilities, such as on-line desalting, which allows for the purification of biomolecules in real time. In doing so, analysis times can be reduced from weeks to hours, which offers the potential for significant savings in operational costs of bioprocessing.
The Company has also developed a working prototype of a miniaturised "triple quadrupole" instrument, and is welcoming interest from partners for further product development and channels to market for this technology, in life science applications.
Volume 93 Issue 10 | p. 8
Issue Date: March 9, 2015 | Web Date: March 5, 2015
Shrinking The Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
Instrumentation:
Researchers develop the first miniature analyzer for mass spec�s quantitation workhorse
The ion optics bench of a miniaturized triple quadrupole mass spectrometer.
The first miniature triple-quadrupole mass analyzer is not much longer than a pencil.
To uncover the molecular composition of samples outside the lab, researchers have been shrinking mass spectrometers to make them portable. Various mass analyzers�the components of the spectrometer that sort molecular fragments and send them into the detector�have already been miniaturized, including ion traps and single quadrupoles. But triple quadrupoles, the mass analyzers of choice for most quantitative mass spec applications, have not been miniaturized�until now.
A team at Microsaic Systems, in Woking, En�gland, has developed the first mini triple-quadrupole mass analyzer (Anal. Chem. 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b00311).
The work �marks important progress in mass spec miniaturization,� says R. Graham Cooks, a chemistry professor at Purdue University. �Almost all previous miniature mass spectrometers have used ion traps.�
�The mass spectrometer for targeted compound quantitation is the triple quad, whether the application is environmental monitoring, food safety, clinical analysis, or whatever,� says Richard A. Yost, a chemistry professor at the University of Florida. �This is really the first commercial attempt to develop a practical small-sized and potentially field-deployable triple-quad platform.�