Two types of deposition samplers were used, equipped with a glass fibre thimble and an Amberlite sampler respectively.
In this work, a quadruped robot traversing different grounds using a variety of gaits is used, equipped with a collection of proprioceptive (encoders on active, and passive compliant joints), inertial, and foot pressure sensors.
For X-ray analysis, the X-ray diffractometer DRON-3M was used equipped with additional computer system of scanning, X-ray tube with copper anode and nickel filter.
For HPLC-DAD analyses, an HPLC system 2089 Quaternary Gradient with a diode array spectrophotometric detector MD-2010 was used, equipped with an AS-950 autosampler (Jasco International Co, Japan).
In-line holography was performed on three different microscopes: Firstly a Jeol 2200FS TEM/STEM was used equipped with a Schottky field emitter and operated at 200 kV.
For HPLC-ESI-Q-ToF analyses, an HPLC 1200 Infinity coupled to a Jet Stream ESI-Q-ToF 6530 Infinity detector was used, equipped with an Agilent Infinity autosampler (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA, USA).
A Dionex (Sunnyvale, CA) DX-500 system was used equipped with an isocratic high pressure pump IP 20, a Dionex IonPac HPICE-AS 6 separation column, and a Shimadzu (Duisburg, Germany) SPD 10 AVP UV/VIS detector, wavelength set to 210 nm.
For all ESI analyses, a BioApex II ESI-FTICR-MS instrument (Bruker Daltonics, Bremen, Germany) with XMass software was used, equipped with a 7.4 Tesla magnet and an electrospray ion source (Agilent, Waldbronn, Germany).
A UV polychromatic light source (Dermolum UM-W1, Müller Elektronik®, Moosinning, Germany) was used, equipped with a Schott WG 305 filter to generate solar-simulated radiation (SSR) containing 5% UVB and 95% UVA.
