Emerging mass spectrometric tools for analysis of polymers and polymer additives

Advances in Polymer Science

Volumn 248, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-37

  Aminlashgari, Nina ^a   Hakkarainen, Minna ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Additives; Degradation products; Desorption ionization mass spectrometry; Laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry; Mass spectrometry; Polymer analysis; Secondary ion mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859594695     PISSN: 00653195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/12_2011_152     Document Type: Article

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