On the Mechanism of Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (ESIMS)

Electrospray and MALDI Mass Spectrometry: Fundamentals, Instrumentation, Practicalities, and Biological Applications: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-48

  Kebarle, Paul ^a   Verkerk, Udo H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charged droplets; Coulomb fissions; Droplet shrinkage; Electrospray lonization mass spectrometry; Gas phase ions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886986489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470588901.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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