Hyphenated Techniques

Mass Spectrometry in Polymer Chemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 209-235

  Falkenhagen, Jana ^a   Weidner, Steffen ^a  

^a BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liquid adsorption chromatography (LAC); Liquid chromatographic (LC); Liquid chromatography at critical condition (LC CC); Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) Electrospray ionization (ESI); Separation; Size exclusion chromatography (SEC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885543939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527641826.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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