Xianglei Mao
Xianglei Mao
Awards
Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award - December 01st 2014
Richard Russo, Arnab Sarkar, Xianglei Mao, and George Chan were selected to receive the 2013 Elsevier/Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award, honoring the most significant article of the year published in the journal Spectrochimica Acta Part B.
2011 Elsevier/Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award - February 27th 2013
Richard Russo, Xianglei Mao, Dale Perry and Inhee Choi of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, and their co-workers at other institutions named below, received the 2011 Elsevier/Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award for a series of three papers focused on a novel approach of performing accurate isotopic analysis called Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry (LAMIS). LAMIS, which was developed by Russo and co-workers, represents a joint effort of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (University of California, Berkeley), Applied Spectra, Inc. (Fremont, CA) and NASA-Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA).
The group of papers selected for the Award is the following:
R.E. Russo, A.A. Bol'shakov, X. Mao, C.P. McKay, D.L. Perry, O. Sorkhabi. "Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry." Spectrochim. Acta Part B 66 (2011) 99–104.
X. Mao, A.A. Bol'shakov, D.L. Perry, O. Sorkhabi, R.E. Russo. "Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry: Parameter influence on boron isotope measurements." Spectrochim. Acta Part B 66 (2011) 604–609.
X. Mao, A.A. Bol'shakov, I. Choi, C.P. McKay, D.L. Perry, O. Sorkhabi, R.E. Russo. "Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry: Strontium and its isotopes." Spectrochim. Acta Part B 66 (2011) 767–775.
2012 R&D 100 to Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry - June 20th 2012
LAMIS, which stands for Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry, focuses the energy of a high-powered laser beam to a tiny spot on the surface of a sample to create a plasma plume for analysis. Each species of atoms or ions in the plasma will emit light with signature spectral emission peaks that can be measured to identify the specific isotopes of a chemical element within. LAMIS offers a green chemistry alternative to existing mass spectrometry techniques that is faster, less expensive and can be carried out from across vast distances.