Massbox®

Mass spectrometer

Bring laboratory-grade elemental analysis wherever you need it — on the factory floor, in the field office, at the remote site. Load your sample, define your analysis, press go, and get trace-level results across the full periodic table in minutes.

CHEMISTRY AT THE POINT OF NEED

Take any solid material and analyze the full periodic table of its constituents. One session. No digestion, no gas, no specialist required.

From the manufacturing facility to the field office to the remote site, Massbox goes where the materials are.

What once required a lab’s worth of equipment and hours of sample preparation now happens in a single session, at the point of need.

Investigate lithium distribution—spatially and in depth—in air-sensitive electrodes, under vacuum, in minutes.

From feedstock powder verification to 3D interface mapping, get full elemental characterization at the point of production.

Trace element sensitivity that X-ray techniques can’t match, in a field-deployable package. Cut your analytical turnaround from weeks to hours.

Quantitative Analysis

Determine the constituents of your material, from lithium to uranium, including light elements like C, N, O, and F that other techniques struggle to detect.

Sub-ppm detection limits and reliable isotopic verification mean you can trust what you’re seeing.

Elemental Mapping

See where every element is, not just how much of it is present.

Map up to 90 mm × 90 mm at 5–150-micron resolution to reveal the spatial heterogeneities, contaminants, and inclusions that bulk analysis misses entirely.

3D Depth Profiling

Understand your material in three dimensions without cutting, polishing, or cross-sectioning.

Build a layer-by-layer picture through tens of microns, characterizing coatings, SEI layers, interfaces, and failure penetration with nanometer-scale depth resolution.

Rethink What’s Possible at the Bench

Results in Minutes, Not Weeks

Load your sample, define your analysis, and press go. Massbox automatically identifies and isotopically verifies every detected element. What previously required multiple instruments and hours of sample preparation now happens in a single session.

Deploy It Where the Work Happens

Massbox fits on a 3.5 ft × 2 ft bench space and runs on standard single-phase power. It requires no gas cylinders, fume hoods, or dedicated infrastructure. Take it to the factory floor, the field office, or a remote site.

Analyze What Other Instruments Can’t

Operating under vacuum, Massbox directly analyzes air- and moisture-sensitive materials such as cycled battery electrodes, reactive metal powders, or solid-state electrolytes, without atmospheric exposure compromising your results.

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Exum's use of the LALI method in its Massbox instrument is very promising and exciting for solid sample analysis. Combining the low-detection capabilities with intuitive, seamless operations, this technology addresses application limitations in other instrumental techniques.

Robert Thomas

Principal Consultant at Scientific Solutions

From the moment I learned about Massbox’s LALI‑TOF‑MS technology, it was clear that its distinctive capabilities overcome long‑standing limitations in existing analytical tools.

Chih-hung Chang

Oregon State University Professor, School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering

The Massbox is an incredible and transformational analytical platform, and every materials lab should have one.

John Keogh PhD

Director of Engineering, LIFT

Traditional analytical instruments were not cost and time effective to analyze our materials. Exum's tool enables high-throughput analysis of both our feedstock powder and printed parts to significantly boost our quality assurance and R&D turnaround.

Jeremy Iten

Chief Technology Officer, Elementum3D

Massbox Specifications

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Detection limits down to 100s of ppb (application and element dependent)

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Straightforward quantification from clean mass spectra and isotopic elemental verification

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Elemental mapping up to a 90-mm-by-90-mm area with 5-150-micron resolution

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Depth profiling with up to 10-100-nm resolution (application dependent)

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Instrument size: 106 cm (W) x 68 cm (D) x 59 cm (H)

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High vacuum environment achieved less than 1 minute after samples are loaded

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Mass resolution: 800 dm/m at mass of 100

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Versatile sample accommodation within 90 mm x 90 mm area

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Exum® Instruments Inc. is an innovator in powerful, accessible, and user-friendly analytical instrumentation, delivering chemistry at the point of need. Our mission is to empower scientists and engineers to accelerate discovery and development across diverse applications by redefining the possibilities of analytical chemistry. We developed Massbox®, the world's first desktop instrument providing Laser Ablation Laser Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (LALI-TOF-MS) offering unprecedented ease of use, speed, and analytical capabilities.