This concise tutorial review provides a description of the current state of the art in the
application of time-of flight based secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) in the field …

Ionised cluster beams have been produced and employed for thin film deposition and
surface processing for half a century. In the last two decades, kiloelectronvolt cluster ions …

Surface metallization by plasma coating enhances desorption/ionization of membrane
components such as lipids and sterols in imaging time-of-flight secondary ion mass …

Low energy ion scattering (LEIS) probes the elemental composition of the outermost atomic
layer of a material and provides static depth profiles of the outer ca. 10 nm of surfaces. Its …

Graphite-assisted laser desorption/ionization (GALDI) mass spectrometry (MS) was
investigated for analysis of cerebrosides in a complex total brain lipid extract. Conventional …

Peptide-doped trehalose thin films have been characterized by bombardment with energetic
cluster ion beams of C60+ and Au x+(x= 1, 2, 3). The aim of these studies is to acquire …

Imaging mass spectrometry provides both chemical information and the spatial distribution
of each analyte detected. Here it is demonstrated how imaging mass spectrometry of tissue …

The deposition of sodium salts followed by a sputtered layer of gold has been demonstrated
to be a power combination for the analysis of triacylglycerols (TAGs) from tissue sections by …

The surface properties of polymer blends are important for many industrial applications. The
physical and chemical properties at the surface of polymer blends can be drastically different …

Rat kidneys were sectioned by cryoultramicrotomy and dried at room temperature. The
samples were covered with a thin silver layer and analyzed in an imaging TOF‐SIMS …