Effect of different solution flow rates on analyte ion signals in nano-ESI MS, or: When does ESI turn into nano-ESI?

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 492-500

  Schmidt, Andrea ^a   Karas, Michael ^a   Dülcks, Thomas ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SPRAYING;

ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION (ESI);

IONIZATION;

DETERGENT; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDE; BARIUM DERIVATIVE; GLUCAN; ION; MALTOHEPTAOSE; NEUROTENSIN;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLOW RATE; LIQUID; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TIME;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; GLUCANS; IONS; MICROCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEUROTENSIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037487098     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-0305(03)00128-4     Document Type: Article

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