It was a busy week at SIMS-24 in La Rochelle, France, with presentations from Abdul, Akhila, Matija, Alex and Nick. Congratulations to the Co-Chairs Alain Brunelle, Jean-Paul Barnes and their teams for a great conference!
Publication – GCIB developments
A study from Matija’s PhD on the application of Reactive Gas Cluster Ion Beams has been published in Analytical Chemistry.
Reactive Gas Cluster Ion Beams for Enhanced Drug Analysis by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Matija Lagator, Bilal Patel, Sadia Sheraz, and Nicholas Lockyer
Analytical Chemistry Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c02144
Nature Reviews Publication
Togther with fellow SIMS experts from around the world we have pulsihed a new Primer ‘Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry‘ in Nature Reviews Methods. The manuscript describes the operating principles of SIMS and outlines how the instrument geometry and operational parameters enable different modes of operation and information to be obtained. Applications, including materials science, surface science, electronic devices, geosciences and life sciences, are explored, finishing with an outlook for the technique.
The manuscript is currently only availble to download on journal subscription but will be Open Acess in 6 months. In the meantime you can view the full article here.
PhD for Matija
Many congratulations to Matija for the award of his PhD on the ‘Development of Novel High Energy Cluster Ion Beam Methodology for Molecular Analysis and Imaging‘. Thanks to the external examiner Prof Mel Bailey from The University of Surrey and internal examiner Dr Drupad Trivedi. Matija will be joining the SIMS group led by Dr Felicia Green at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. Well done Matija and good luck!
Award for Akhila
Many congratulations to Akhila for winning the Peter Ryan Award for the best presentation at the BMSS Ambient Ionisation meeting in Birmingham! The title of Akhila’s oral presentation was titled ‘Visualizing Fungicide Mobility in Tomato Leaves with DESI Mass Spectrometry Imaging‘. The Award was sponsored by KR Analytical. Well done Akhila!
New Collaboration: Multimodal Ion Beam Imaging facility
We are excited to announce a new collaboration with The Surrey Ion Beam Centre on a new £3m project ‘Multimodal 3D elemental and molecular imaging at the sub-micron scale‘ funded by the EPSRC. The project, led by Prof Melanie Bailey at the University of Surrey, will be achieved.by combining MeV ion beam analysis (X rays, gamma rays, backscattered particles) and water cluster Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) for the first time in a single instrument.
Happy 80th John!
We recently got together with some alumni and friends of the group to celebrate John Vickerman’s 80th Birthday with a meal and drinks in Manchester city centre. It was great to catch up with everyone. Congratulations John!
Publication – Nanoscale Advanced Materials Engineering
Our collaboration with Prof Richard Curry results in a publication in the journal Advanced Engineering Materials:
A High-Resolution Versatile Focused Ion Implantation Platform for Nanoscale Engineering
Adv. Eng. Mater., 25: 2300889. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202300889
Publication – Data processing
We have co-authored the following paper led by Prof Satoka Aoyagi and her group at Seikei University, Japan.
Anal. Chem. 2023, 95, 40, 15078–15085
Publication
Congratulations Abdul on your recent publication:
Secondary ion mass spectrometry analysis of metal oxides using 70 keV argon, carbon dioxide, and water gas cluster ion beams
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 41, 044007 (2023)
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(BBSRC DTP) Shedding new light on the spatial lipidomics of disease progression using vibrational spectroscopy and mass spectrometry
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Matija awarded for SIMS 23 presentation
Congratulations Matija on winning the Rowland Hill Award for best student presentation at SIMS 23 in Minneapolis! Matija’s award-winning presentation was entitled ‘“Effects of Reactive Gas Cluster Ion Beams on Yields and Matrix Effects in SIMS”
Invited Presentation – Atomic Level Characterisation
Nick gave an invited talk at the 14th International Symposium on Atomic Level
Characterizations for New Materials and Devices (ALC’22) conference in Okinawa, Japan. The talk was entitled ‘Improved bioanalysis using GCIB SIMS and laser post-ionisation’ highlighting recent progress in fundamentals and applications of ToF-SIMS.
Keynote Presentation – British Mass Spectrometry Society
Nick gave the Keynote Presentation in the Mutimodal Session of the 42nd BMSS Conference in Manchester in September. The talk was titled ‘Multimodal Mass Spectrometry and Optical Imaging of a Neuroinflammation Model‘ and showcased our collaboration with the Medicines Discovery Catapult and colleagues in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.
Invited Talk – UK Surface Analysis Forum
Nick gave an Invited Talk at the UKSAF meeting at the Henry Royce Institute hub, entitiled ‘Advances in ToF-SIMS using massive gas cluster ion beams‘.
