Solvent-Free MALDI-MS: Developmental Improvements in the Reliability and the Potential of MALDI in the Analysis of Synthetic Polymers and Giant Organic Molecules

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 661-671

  Trimpin, S ^a   Keune, S ^b   Rader H J ^c   Mullen K ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DITHRANOL; GIANT ORGANIC MOLECULES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; SEGREGATION EFFECTS; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENTS;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; SOLVENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MISCIBILITY; POLYMER PRODUCTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLVENTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 33646114535     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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