Publications by authors named "Xiu-chun Zhan"

In 21st century, many countries pay much attention to lithium because lithium is an ideal material for green energy and light alloys as well as an important kind of strategic resources. The main source of lithium is from salt lake brine. China has rich resources of salt lake brine, but these brine resources are mainly distributed in the remote western region, which are in urgent need of portable analytical instrument for on-site exploration and exploitation.

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Currently, increasing importance has been attached to heavy metal pollution of water environment. In order to help geologist and environmentalist to obtain on-site experimental data, there is an urgent need to develop portable analysis techniques of water quality, which can be used to give an timely and accurate assessment of water quality of the contaminated area with low cost and to monitor water environment conveniently in daily preventing and controlling work of water pollution. Based on adsorption with Purolite S930 chelating resin at pH 4 and thin-film sample preparation technique, a rapid and simple on-site-oriented analysis method of heavy metal ions, namely Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn and Pb in aqueous solutions, was developed utilizing a handheld energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence in this paper.

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Article Synopsis
  • - The study explores how the matrix effect between reference materials and samples impacts the accuracy of results obtained from laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), highlighting a lack of existing methods to quantify this effect.
  • - Using the linear correlation coefficient r from concentration and intensity ratios of element pairs, the research assesses matrix effects in various reference materials, finding significant variability across element pairs and materials analyzed.
  • - Results indicate that most relative errors for major elements exceed 10%, regardless of the internal standard used, while trace elements generally show better agreement between glass reference materials and sulfide standards, supporting the feasibility of using linear correlation for quantifying matrix effects.
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Evaluating uncertainty of analytical results with 165 geological samples by polarized dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (P-EDXRF) has been reported according to the internationally accepted guidelines. One hundred sixty five pressed pellets of similar matrix geological samples with reliable values were analyzed by P-EDXRF. These samples were divided into several different concentration sections in the concentration ranges of every component.

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A method for evaluation of uncertainty was established with standard deviation of relative error. Utilizing a polarized energy dispersive X ray fluorescence spectrometer (P-EDXRF)X-lab 2000 with pressed polyethylene-backed pellets, 76 national reference materials and 89 geological examination samples were analyzed, the results indicated that the relative errors consist with the normal distribution with confidence level 95%. The section standard deviations of relative errors acted as method global relative uncertainty and expanded factor was 2.

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Overlapped spectra occur often in energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Without a suitable curve fitting process, no correct qualitative and quantitative results can be obtained. The most difficult problems in curve fitting include that elements and their lines are unknown, background is uncertain sometimes, and initial model parameters may be in correct.

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