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Fast Chromatographic Method for Explosive Profiling
Stefanuto, Pierre-Hugues; Perrault, Katelynn A.; Focant, Jean-François et al.
2015In Chromatography, 2, p. 213-224
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Keywords :
Fast Chromatography; Explosive; GCxGC-TOFMS
Abstract :
[en] Security control is becoming a major global issue in strategic locations, such as airports, official buildings, and transit stations. The agencies responsible for public security need powerful and sensitive tools to detect warfare agents and explosives. Volatile signature detection is one of the fastest and easiest ways to achieve this task. However, explosive chemicals have low volatility making their detection challenging. In this research, we developed and evaluated fast chromatographic methods to improve the characterization of volatile signatures from explosives samples. The headspace of explosives was sampled with solid phase micro-extraction fiber (SPME). Following this step, classical gas chromatography (GC) and comprehensive two-dimensional GC (GC×GC) were used for analysis. A fast GC approach allows the elution temperature of each analyte to be decreased, resulting in decreased thermal degradation of sensitive compounds (e.g., nitro explosives). Using fast GC×GC, the limit of detection is further decreased based on the cryo-focusing effect of the modulator. Sampling of explosives and chromatographic separation were optimized, and the methods then applied to commercial explosives samples. Implementation of fast GC methods will be valuable in the future for defense and security forensics applications.
Disciplines :
Chemistry
Author, co-author :
Stefanuto, Pierre-Hugues  ;  Université de Liège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Chimie analytique, organique et biologique
Perrault, Katelynn A.;  University of Technology Sydney > Center for Forensic Science
Focant, Jean-François  ;  Université de Liège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Chimie analytique, organique et biologique
Forbes, Shari L.;  University of Technology Sydney > Center for Forensic Science
Language :
English
Title :
Fast Chromatographic Method for Explosive Profiling
Publication date :
May 2015
Journal title :
Chromatography
eISSN :
2227-9075
Publisher :
MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
Volume :
2
Pages :
213-224
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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