Application: The SC175 has been designed specifically for single cell and single particle analysis e.g. single celled diatom species analysis1. It can also be used for any analysis requiring very low flow rates e.g. plasma printing of gold nanoparticles2.
Nebulizer Outer Body Material: PTFE nose with PEEK body
Nebulizer Inner Capillary Material: PEEK
Sample Capillary: 175 um
Sample Flow Rate: 5 ul/min up to 1 ml/min
Gas Flow Rate: 45 PSI @ .75 L/min
60 PSI @ 1.0 L/min
Flows rates less than 0.75 L/min are not recommended
Compatibility: The SC175 is supplied with 1/16” OD PFA capillary tubing to conveniently attach the sample line to a pump or injection system. Appropriate gas lines and sample lines are included to run Burgener Nebulizers on all Agilent, PerkinElmer, Shimadzu, Spectro, Thermo Fisher and other ICP-MS systems.
Because the SC175 is designed to handle very low flow rates and high speed analysis with ICP-MS, it is not intended for use on an ICP-OES.
Why PEEK and Teflon?
The back half of the nebulizer is made from PEEK to provide durability and strength. PEEK is also resistant to most acids and solvents. The nose of the nebulizer is exposed in the chamber, and therefore constructed from Teflon which is more resistant than PEEK with repetitive usage.
In order to provide very low flow capability, the inner capillaries are made from PEEK. Wetted PEEK capillaries allow the sample to flow smoothly to the gas orifice. This allows the nebulizer to produce a constant flow even at very low flow rates, which is necessary for single cell and single particle applications.
Other Burgener Research Nebulizers
If you are not doing single cell or single particle analysis but would like to see other nebulizers that are unbreakable, un-pluggable and produce industry leading RSDs, detection limits and sensitivity, please browse the line-up of Burgener Research Nebulizers available online through Delta Scientific!
1 von der Au, M., et al. (2019). Development of an automated on-line purification HPLC single cell-ICP-MS approach for fast diatom analysis. Analytica Chimica Acta, 1077, pp. 87-94.
2 Hong, J., & Yick, S., & Chow, E., et al. (2019). Direct plasma printing of nano-gold from an inorganic precursor. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7, pp. 6369-6374.
*Please note: these articles refer to the X175 instead of the SC175. This is because Burgener Research had not yet branded the SC175 nebulizer. The X175 nebulizers used in these studies were calibrated specifically for the purpose of single cell and single particle analysis. These specially calibrated X175s became the SC175 now available.