Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

DOI

10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-1232j

Publication Title

ChemRxiv

Pages

17 pp.

Abstract

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) reference materials are critical to ensuring reliable comparability of measurements across experiments and between labs. TRM-0522, isolated in 2022 from 45 m deep seawater off of Sweden’s west coast, fills the niche of a previously unavailable coastal marine DOM reference material. After its isolation, we detailed a limited number of metrics for TRM-0522, initially disclosing Orbitrap high-resolution mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, carbon proportion, absorbance, and fluorescence data. With TRM-0522 becoming more widely used, a variety of labs have generated different metrics that help to characterize and define the chemical properties of this coastal reference material. Here, we disclose TRM-0522 data from elemental analysis, isotopic analysis (δ13C and Δ14C signatures), condensed aromatic “black” carbon characterization, ultra-HRMS (10-21 Tesla FT-ICR-MS and Orbitrap Fusion Lumos), CD3 labelling, and contribution of carbonyls in absorbance and fluorescence after NaBH4 reduction, pH titration, and nitroxide quenching. This greatly expanded dataset reinforces TRM-0522’s suitability as a coastal reference material, and provides metrics for future use between labs and for inevitable additional large-scale collections of material from this site.

Original Publication Citation

Craig, A. J., Babcock-Adams, L., Bridoux, M. C., Brun, C., D’Andrilli, J., Goranov, A. I., Hatcher, P. G., Lechtenfeld, O., Li, H., Matos, R., McKay, G., McKenna, A. M., Miller, M., Wagner, S., White, M. E., Zherebker, A., & Hawkes, J. A. (2025). Extended inter-laboratory characterization of the new coastal seawater dissolved organic matter reference material TRM-0522. ChemRxiv. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-1232j

ORCID

0000-0002-5103-0838 (Goranov)

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