Future directions for chromatographic plasma emission detection

FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR CHROMATOGRAPHIC PLASMA EMISSION DETECTION 

In real terms, wide adoption of plasma spectral detection will depend on the availability of commercial instrumentation to allow interlaboratory comparison of information and development of standard methods of analysis which can be widely employed. Many analyses are subject to constraints aimed at ensuring high levels of accuracy and precision. Plasma chromatographic detection has already demonstrated a wide utility and the recent commercial introduction of an integrated GC-MIP system suggests that the future of this technique is sound, despite earlier setbacks. Fully integrated units which circumvent the need for analysts to interface their own chromatograph, emission device and spectrometer may become as familiar in the future as GC-MS and GC-FTIR systems are today. 

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