ICP-MS Research Facility inaugurated at Osmania University

Hyderabad, Jan 2 : Osmania University Registrar Prof. K. Pratap Reddy on Thursday inaugurated the state- of-the-art instrumental research facility for trace metal analysis based on Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), at Central Facilities for Research and Development (CFRD), OU, in the presence of Prof. K. Venu Gopal Reddy, Director, CFRD, Prof. B. Sashidhar Rao, Coordinator, DST-PURSE Programme, faculty members and research scholars of the university.

Over the past three decades, inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) has been gaining favour with laboratories around the world as an instrument of choice for performing trace metal analysis, with a performance accuracy of detecting elements at parts per trillion (ppt). This instrument is fully automated and is based on MassHunter software platform. The end users of this facility include faculty members, researchers and research scholars working in the area of material science, bionanocomposites, chemistry, biochemistry, applied geochemistry, geology and environmental science.

This sophisticated instrumental research facility was funded by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, under Promotion of University Research and Scientific excellence (PURSE) programme. PURSE programme provides substantive research grant to universities based on scientific publications in Science Citation Indexed Journals through SCOPUS Database. SCOPUS incorporates the H-index as a means to evaluate research performance. The H-index attempts to measure both the scientific productivity and the apparent scientific impact. Osmania University was graded SCOPUS H-Index value of 32, under category C University with a grant of Rs 3 crores per year, for 3 years. INN