One of the most promising analytical instruments - mass spectrometer

As a high-end scientific research instrument, mass spectrometers are used more and more widely in universities. China, as an important demand market for mass spectrometers in the world, is also attracting more and more attention from manufacturers. The rapid growth of mass spectrometry demand in the domestic market has not divided this gospel score.è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™ è•™.

Mass spectrometers have a wide range of applications in food, environmental, human health, pharmaceuticals, national security, and other areas related to analytical testing. It has now become one of the most promising analytical instruments. In recent years, the global market growth rate has exceeded 10%. The demand growth in the Chinese market is even far greater than this proportion. In particular, current human health, environmental safety, and rational use of energy are currently outstanding issues faced by countries in the world. Mass spectrometers are also particularly favored for their accurate qualitative and quantitative capabilities in the analysis and detection process.

However, this increasingly prosperous market has not brought too much revenue to domestically produced instrument manufacturers. It is understood that China's mid-to-high-end mass spectrometers are completely dependent on imports. This means that what we favor is mostly foreign brands, and our country’s market. Has also become the object of other countries to attract gold. This is really not a “small profit.” Ah, a mass spectrometer made domestically is the cheapest and it costs hundreds of thousands. Importing each one of them requires almost 1 million to 5 million or more, a 211 University of Engineering light mass spectrometer. There are tens of millions of investment in equipment. But how much of this tens of millions is spent on purchasing domestic products? Not much. Does Peking University and Tsinghua have homemade mass spectrometers? It is estimated that it is unlikely that other institutions of higher learning as a research base? I am afraid that it will not add more than a dozen units. So who needs more than 10% of this demand is created by Agilent? Thermo Fisher? Or Waters? In short, it will rarely turn to Chinese brands.

In fact, the development of organic mass spectrometers in China began in the 1960s. Both the Beijing Analytical Instrument Factory and the Academy of Sciences Instrument Factory have launched their own chemical analysis mass spectrometers and GC/MS. However, domestic instruments have lost to foreign products in terms of performance, price, etc., and have gradually lost their markets. In order to maintain their livelihoods, these state-owned instrument factories have gradually evolved from independent design production to foreign product assembly and commissioned maintenance, and their technical strength and equipment have been lost. Although some universities and research institutes have successfully developed instruments such as MALDI-TOFMS, they have not been transformed into commodities.

As a result, there is no general situation in the domestic brands of the mass spectrometry industry. We admit that there is a gap between ours and foreign technologies in the field of high-end analytical instruments. However, the chief culprit in the absence of domestically-manufactured equipment is the Chinese equipment. The data cannot be recognized internationally. The author is not very clear that this is not a kind of academic barrier, and it is not clear what these international equipment manufacturers have played with, and in short, domestic instruments have become “failed” and the research results of generations of people have come to an end. Can only be divided into some "cold", this is not just a situation of embarrassment, that is not too much sad. Although home-made mass spectrometry equipment also occupies a small part of the education market, most of them are not for scientific research, but are used as lectures and demonstrations, and play a much less important role than models.