Detect-ION Analytical Services

Do you need high-quality VOC analyses?

Detect-ION operates an analytical chemistry lab built around an Agilent 8890 GC and Agilent 7250 Q-TOF high-resolution mass spectrometer coupled to a Markes TD100-xr automated thermal desorption system. This platform delivers reference-grade characterization of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs/SVOCs) across breath, environmental, and industrial applications, for untargeted discovery, targeted ID, or method development. DI uses this state-of-the-art analytical system to validate our field-portable CLARION platform, giving our team deep, hands-on experience translating lab-grade chemical analysis into real-world, point-of-need applications.

What We Offer

Untargeted volatilomics discovery

Unbiased screening to uncover candidate biomarkers

Targeted VOC/SVOC identification

High-confidence ID by accurate mass & library matching

Method development & validation

Sampling protocols & methods tailored to your matrix

Confirmatory / reference-standard analysis

Cross-validate your data against laboratory HRMS

Spectral library building

Custom compound libraries for new applications

New-matrix feasibility studies

Scouting analyses before you commit to the field

Behind Every Result

How accurate mass turns complex samples into answers you can defend.

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Platform

Capabilities

Your samples run on a reference-grade GC-HRMS platform, with accurate mass that tells apart compounds conventional instruments read as identical. The result: answers you can publish, defend, and build on.

Sample Front End

Markes TD100-xr
Automated thermal desorption, up to 100 sorbent tubes per unattended sequence, quantitative sample re-collection, electrically cooled focusing trap enables recovery of highly volatile species through higher-boiling compounds (SVOCs) in the same run

Gas Chromatograph

Agilent 8890 GC
In a wide range of standard or customer-specified columns to ensure high fidelity transferability between lab and field methods

Mass Spectrometer

Agilent 7250 Q-TOF
Mass resolution >25,000 FWHM, mass accuracy <2 ppm, fg level instrument detection limit, up to 50 Hz acquisition, >10⁵ dynamic range, low-energy EI plus MS/MS for structural confirmation of unknowns

Applications

Across Every Industry

Whether you're screening for unknowns, developing a new method, or need reference-grade confirmatory data for a clinical study, our lab supports research and industry partners across every application below. Early CLARION adopters can also cross-validate field results against benchtop HRMS before scaling a program.