The quality of the monomers lactic acid and lactide as well as the chemical changes induced
during polymerization and processing are crucial parameters for controlling the properties of …

Cluster secondary ion mass spectrometry (cluster SIMS) has played a critical role in the
characterization of polymeric materials over the last decade, allowing for the ability to obtain …

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) has unique capabilities in the
area of high-resolution mass spectrometric imaging of biological samples. The technique …

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) using buckminsterfullerene
(C60) as the primary ion source has the ability to generate chemical images of surfaces with …

Over the last 10 or so years, developments in molecular se-condary ion mass spectrometry
(SIMS) have taken its capability into areas previously only demonstrated in dynamic SIMS …

The heart of this review is to give a compact overview of the literature on mass spectrometry
(MS) of polymers published in the time period from 2008 to 2009. Identical to the review from …

The depth profiling of organic materials with argon cluster ion sputtering has recently
become widely available with several manufacturers of surface analytical instrumentation …

Proper display of three-dimensional time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-
SIMS) imaging data of complex, nonflat samples requires a correction of the data in the z …

In principle mass spectral imaging has enormous potential for discovery applications in
biology. The chemical specificity of mass spectrometry combined with spatial analysis …

There is considerable excitement surrounding the application of gas cluster ion beams
(GCIBs) for SIMS analysis in order to study organic materials and biological samples such …