Bruker chosen to construct first 21T magnet
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has selected Bruker Daltonics to design and build a Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance magnet, with a field strength of 21.0 tesla (T).
The National Science Foundation project will be undertaken at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) at Florida State University in Tallahassee. According to Bruker, the company's contract is worth more than $10 million, with the company expecting to deliver the Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resononce (FT-ICR) magnet to the lab in the first half of 2013.
FT-ICR magnets are useful in the analysis of complex mixtures including petroleum and metabolites and for the characterization of large biological molecules like proteins. The highest field magnet currently operates at 15T, according to Bruker. The 21T will be designed with a 110 mm room temperature bore along with UltraStabilized cooling technology, which will cool the magnet to an operating temperature of 2 Kelvin.
Billerica, Mass.-based Bruker develops and supplies high-performance FT-ICR mass spectrometers as well as ultra-high field superconducting magnets for NMR, EPR, preclinical MRI and FT-ICR.
The National Science Foundation project will be undertaken at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) at Florida State University in Tallahassee. According to Bruker, the company's contract is worth more than $10 million, with the company expecting to deliver the Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resononce (FT-ICR) magnet to the lab in the first half of 2013.
FT-ICR magnets are useful in the analysis of complex mixtures including petroleum and metabolites and for the characterization of large biological molecules like proteins. The highest field magnet currently operates at 15T, according to Bruker. The 21T will be designed with a 110 mm room temperature bore along with UltraStabilized cooling technology, which will cool the magnet to an operating temperature of 2 Kelvin.
Billerica, Mass.-based Bruker develops and supplies high-performance FT-ICR mass spectrometers as well as ultra-high field superconducting magnets for NMR, EPR, preclinical MRI and FT-ICR.