Regime transition in electromechanical fluid atomization and implications to analyte ionization for mass spectrometric analysis

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1900-1905

  Forbes, Thomas P ^a   Degertekin, F Levent ^a,b   Fedorov, Andrei G ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; CHARGED DROPLET; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; EJECTION PROCESS; ELECTROSPRAYING; ELECTROSPRAYS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; IONIZATION EFFICIENCY; LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL FIELD; MICROMACHINED; OPTICAL VISUALIZATION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; REGIME TRANSITION; SCALING ANALYSIS; SPRAY REGIME;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ION SOURCES; IONIC STRENGTH; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; SPECTROMETRY; STROUHAL NUMBER; ULTRASONICS; VISUALIZATION;

IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

ARTICLE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSPRAY; IONIC STRENGTH; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANICS; NEBULIZATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

AIR IONIZATION; ELECTROLYTES; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 77958179497     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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