New paper on elemental mapping of Shells using LIBS

We are happy to announce the first major publication of the ACCELERATE Project: Elemental mapping of Mg/Ca intensity ratios in marine mollusc shells using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in the Journal of Atomic and Analytical Spectroscopy.

In this paper we showcase our LIBS setup to carry out a rapid analysis of the elemental composition of shell carbonate, with over 2,000 sampling points per hour and little to no sample preparation.

We tested the LIBS setup using sections of three mollusc shells (Conomurex fasciatus, Ostrea edulis, Anomalocardia flexuosa) and successfully mapped the Mg/Ca ratio within them.

Our next step is to make the setup more user friendly and for it to easily provide the analysis of various selected elemental ratios.