In Part 1 of our interview with Jones, he discussed the mission of the CDC and how his work in their ICP-MS laboratory advanced their efforts to research and develop ways to assess and monitor population exposure to toxic or radioactive elements, which involved using analytical methods, such as inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), to analyze trace and toxic metals.
In Part 2 of our conversation with Jones, he answers the following:
(1) Liu, Y.; Xiao, G.; Jones, R. L. High-Throughput Determination of Ultratrace Actinides in Urine by In-Line Extraction Chromatography Combined with Quadrupole Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (EC-ICP-MS). Anal. Chem. 2022, 94 (51), 18042–18049. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c04458