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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
Advanced Mass Spectrometry - P402021
Title: Pokročilá hmotnostní spektrometrie
Guaranteed by: Department of Analytical Chemistry (402)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Actual: from 2025 to 2025
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:0
E-Credits: summer s.:0
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, other [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
can be fulfilled in the future
Guarantor: Volný Michael Ph.D.
Is interchangeable with: AP402021
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The lecture series is focused on advanced aspects of mass spectrometry with an orientation towards its use in basic and applied research. In particular, it concerns areas extending beyond standard analytical use in GCMS and LCMS configurations. Greater emphasis is placed on instrumentation and on working with ions with an even number of electrons. Furthermore, the course describes special applications of mass spectrometry, especially in mass spectrometric imaging of surfaces, in industrial detectors and in mass spectrometry under extreme conditions. Elements of mass spectrometry used in ion mobility spectrometry and in the deposition of molecular ions on surfaces are also described.
Last update: Volný Michael (29.08.2025)
Course completion requirements -
  • Preparation of a written peer review of a published article in the field (article of your choice), 50% completion
  • Discussion of an advanced problem in the field and its possible solutions (assigned problem), 50% completion

Last update: Volný Michael (29.08.2025)
Literature - Czech

Doporučená:

  • Jürgen H Gross. Mass Spectrometry: A Textbook, Springer. : Springer, 2017, s. ISBN .
  • Richar Cole. Electrospray and MALDI Mass Spectrometry: Fundamentals, Instrumentation, Practicalities, and Biological Applications. : Wiley, 2010, s. ISBN .
  • Michal Holčapek (ed). Handbook of Advanced Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Techniques. : , 2017, s. ISBN .
  • Review články poskytnuté vyučujícím

Last update: Volný Michael (29.08.2025)
Teaching methods -

Lecture once a week in the form of explanation and discussion. Independent work at home.

Last update: Volný Michael (29.08.2025)
Syllabus -

1/ Mass spectrometry in the context of modern analytical chemistry

2/ Fundamental aspects of instrumentation

3/ Ionization as a physicochemical phenomenon distinguishing MS from other spectrometries

4/ Fragmentation of ions with an even number of electrons in tandem mass spectrometry; differences from fragmentation of ion radicals in classical mass spectrometry

5/ Efficiency of ion sources, ion current and yield calculations; influence on detection and quantification limits; differential pumping and ion transport through different pressure regimes

6/ Advanced methods of ion activation and fragmentation

7/ Mass spectrometry in extreme conditions, portable mass spectrometers and industrial mass analyzers

8/ Mass spectrometric imaging of surfaces

9/ Ion mobility spectrometry

10/ Deposition of ions on surfaces, preparative mass spectrometry

11/ Commercial mass spectrometers, their concepts, evolution, patent disputes in mass spectrometry, strategies for acquiring your own spectrometer

12/ OMICS and mass spectrometry

13/ Future concepts and applications

Last update: Volný Michael (29.08.2025)
Registration requirements -

The course is intended for doctoral students. It is assumed that the student has completed a master's degree in natural sciences, engineering or pharmacy with a previous basic lecture on mass spectrometry in the relevant program.

Last update: Volný Michael (29.08.2025)
 
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