# Energy Storage Laboratory

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## Energy Storage Laboratory

The Integrated Analytical Center is a state-of-the-art center with a wide range of high resolution and sensitivity instruments including LC-MS/MS, GC MS/MS, HPLC, ICP, TOC, I.R, U.V., and other instruments. The mission of the integrated analytical lab is to serve the advanced analytical needs of researchers, students and the community in the areas of environmental quality characterization and personalized health care.\
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The existing equipment's can be used to conduct sensitive analyses at nanogram levels supporting research studies in the areas of environmental pollution, food quality, natural products, drug development studies including metabolomics and proteomics of different targets.

### Equipment and Instruments

- Liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-Q-TOF-MS)
- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI-TOF-MS)
- Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS-TQD)
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC-FLD/ECD/UV)
- Gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS)
- Ion chromatography (IC)
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
- Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
- Gas Chromatography (GC-ECD/FID)
- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
- UV-Vis spectrometry
- Automatic polarimeter
- Automatic liquid extraction
- Automatic Solid Phase Extraction
- Karl-Fischer Titrator.

### Services

- Liquid Chromatography Quadrupole Time of Flight Mass Spectroscopy (LC-Q-TOF-MS)\
  Wastewater pollutants screening\
  Proteins Identification\
  Pesticides screening\
  Natural extracts screening

- Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI-TOF-MS)\
  Expression Proteomics\
  MALDI Imaging\
  Biotherapeutic Analysis\
  Biomarker Discovery\
  Polymer Analysis\
  Microbial Identification

- Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS-TQD)\
  Pharmaceutical analysis\
  Pharmacokinetics in biological fluids \
  Pesticides screening\
  Natural extracts screening \
  Amino acid analysis\
  Analysis of vitamins  \
  Food and beverage analysis

- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC-FLD/ECD/UV)\
  Fluorescence detector is widely used in food, environmental, and pharmaceutical analysis, especially for samples containing conjugated systems.\
  UV detector is almost universal detector for organic compounds used to analyze pharmaceuticals, nucleic acids, proteins, and therapeutic drug testing.\
  Electrochemical detection (ECD) is an extremely selective and sensitive detection technique that is applied in several analyses especially compounds prone to oxidation and reduction.

- Gas chromatography mass spectroscopy (GC-MS)\
  Environmental monitoring: determination of pharmaceuticals in water and soil, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons etc.\
  Food, beverage, and fragrance analysis.\
  Forensic and criminal cases: used in forensic toxicology to find poisons, steroids in biological specimens.

- Ion chromatography (IC)\
  Drinking water analysis.\
  Determination of water chemistries in aquatic ecosystems\
  Determination of sugar and salt content in foods\
  Isolation of select proteins\
  Amino acids

- Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)\
  Environmental Analyses Applications \
  Petrochemical Analyses \
  Metallurgical analyses \
  Geological analyses \
  Foodstuffs analyses

- Total Organic Carbon (TOC)\
  Municipal Waste Water: Monitoring organic carbon of influent facilitates process controls for maximizing plant efficiency.\
  Pharmaceutical plants: Water is the most commonly used ingredient used to produce drugs; regulations limit the concentration of organic carbon to prevent harmful bacteria from growing.