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Email: alicia.garcia@unizar.es
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ABOUT ME
Alicia Garcia Garcia obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Valladolid (Spain) in 2022. After obtaining the Master’s degree in Advanced Techniques in Chemistry, Chemical Analysis and Quality Control from the same university, she is currently a PhD student in the Department of Analytical Chemistry in the research group “Métodos Rápidos de Análisis con Técnicas Espectroscópicas – MARTE”.
She has experience with atomic spectrometry techniques (ICP-MS, HR-ICP-MS, ICP-OES, MC-ICP-MS, and AAS), laser ablation, and clean rooms for elemental and isotopic analysis. Her skils were developed in the Departamento de Series de Uranio del Centro de la Evolución del Ser Humano-CENIEH (Burgos, Spain), and in the research group of Marine Chemistry and Biogeochemistry-NTNU (Trondheim, Norway), where she worked on The Nansen Legacy and BEST-Siberian projects.
Her research focuses on developing new methods using laser ablation ICP-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). The public defense of her doctorate is scheduled for 2027.
PUBLICATIONS
2025
Nakadi, Flávio V.; Garcia-Garcia, Alicia; Rua-Ibarz, Ana; Resano, Martín
LAMIS in the gas phase: A new approach for obtaining Ca elemental and isotopic information via CaF molecule formation Journal Article
En: Talanta, vol. 292, pp. 127920, 2025, ISSN: 0039-9140.
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title = {LAMIS in the gas phase: A new approach for obtaining Ca elemental and isotopic information via CaF molecule formation},
author = {Flávio V. Nakadi and Alicia Garcia-Garcia and Ana Rua-Ibarz and Martín Resano},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039914025004102},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2025.127920},
issn = {0039-9140},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-01-01},
journal = {Talanta},
volume = {292},
pages = {127920},
abstract = {This work introduces a novel method for generating the calcium monofluoride (CaF) diatomic molecule by adding the molecule-forming reagent in the gaseous phase (a methyl fluoride-argon mixture), in order to perform laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry (LAMIS) measurements. By optimizing the instrumental parameters, CaF molecule formation was successfully achieved within the plasma plume, upon ablation of dried liquid samples. The isotopic shift for the X2Σ→A2Π (0,1) CaF vibronic transition at 583.0 nm was calculated to be 292.3 pm. The method proved capable of providing quantitative information for determining calcium concentrations in real samples, such as tap water and skimmed milk, using internal standardization (with Sr as internal standard; limit of detection, LOD, 20 mg L−1) and isotope dilution (which can be applied from 400 mg L−1on), respectively. Partial least squares regression (PLS) analysis was employed to enhance the quality of the isotopic data. The Ca concentration found in the tap water was 47 ± 16 mg L−1 (reference flame atomic absorption spectrometry, FAAS, value: 59 ± 0.2 mg L−1), and 1100 ± 140 mg L−1 for the skimmed milk (reference FAAS value: 1240 ± 120 mg L−1). No significant difference between LIBS and FAAS results could be established using a t-test at the 95% confidence level. Overall, this novel approach allows for the determination of calcium in terms of both the elemental concentration and the isotopic composition, thus broadening the applicability of LIBS (e.g., for tracer experiments, besides the already mentioned application of isotope dilution).},
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