Aerosols
EMILIE drastically cuts down sample collection times as well as instrument acquisition costs, opening up an array of new possibilities in airborne nanoparticle characterization, paving the way to breakthroughs environmental monitoring, manufacturing, and life sciences.
Collection of airborne nanoparticles
In the environment, the cleanroom, or the laboratory, airborne nanoparticles as small as 10 nm can be collected by impaction directly on the very light and portable EMILIE nanomechanical sampling and sensing chips.
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Direct collection of aerosols on the EMILIE chip
Airborne nanoparticles with sizes ranging from 10 nm up to approximately 3200 nm can be collected by impaction directly on the EMILIE sampling and sensing chip.
Chemical characterization of ultrafine aerosols by NEMS-FTIR
Direct chemical fingerprinting of the aerosols deposited on the chip. NEMS-FTIR spectra are directly comparable to available infrared spectral libraries, enabling the identification of functional groups and estimation of black carbon content.
EMILIE compared to the state-of-the-art in aerosol characterization
1000x
more sensitive than PTFE filter-based transmission spectroscopy
100x
Shorter sampling times compared to filter-based techniques
3x
Simultaneous quantified parameters: Organic functional groups, ammonium sulfate and equivalent black carbon
4x
Complementary orthogonal techniques for further analysis: RAMAN spectroscopy, SEM/EDX, O-PTIR, and LDIR
EMILIE
The first nanoelectromechanical analyzer for aerosols
Collect airborne nanoparticles as small as 10 nm directly on the EMILIE nanomechanical chips and obtain chemical information in minutes!
