Applying a high voltage to a liquid passing through a capillary disintegrates the liquid
meniscus to generate a fine spray of charged droplets. As the droplets evaporate, polar …

A recent innovation in mass spectrometry is the ability to record mass spectra on ordinary
samples, in their native environment, without sample preparation or preseparation by …

Mass spectrometric ionization methods that operate under ambient conditions and require
minimal or no sample pretreatment have attracted much attention in such fields as …

A droplet pickup and other mechanisms have been suggested for the ionization of
biomolecules like peptides and proteins by desorption electrospray ionization. To verify this …

An ambient ionization technique for mass spectrometry, desorption atmospheric pressure
photoionization (DAPPI), is presented, and its application to the rapid analysis of …

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 …

Ever since the inception of synthetic polymeric materials in the late 19th century, the number
of studies on polymers as well as the complexity of their structures have only increased. The …

Desorption electrospray ionization (DESI), a relatively new ambient ionization technique
used in mass spectrometry (MS), allows for the direct analysis of samples such as thin tissue …

A new mode of operation for desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) analysis of liquids or
solid residues from evaporated solvents is presented. Unlike traditional DESI, the …

The internal energy distributions of typical ions generated by desorption electrospray
ionization (DESI) were measured using the “survival yield” method, and compared with …