Comprehensive Copolymer Characterization

Mass Spectrometry in Polymer Chemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 281-381

  Crecelius, Anna C ^a   Schubert, Ulrich S ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Copolymers; ESI MS; MALDI TOF MS; MS MS; Tandem MS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885487889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527641826.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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