Internal energy and fragmentation of ions produced in electrospray sources

Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 566-587

  Gabellca, Valérie ^a   De Pauw, Edwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Collision induced dissociation; Electrospray; Internal energy; Soft ionization mehods

Indexed keywords

COLLISION-INDUCED DISSOCIATION; ELECTROSPRAY; INTERNAL ENERGY; SOFT IONIZATION METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DESORPTION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EVAPORATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOLVENTS; SPRAYING; SURFACE TENSION;

IONIZATION;

ION;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; IONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 21844444320     PISSN: 02777037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mas.20027     Document Type: Review

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