Using gas modifiers to significantly improve sensitivity and selectivity in a cylindrical FAIMS device

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1274-1284

  Purves, Randy W ^a   Ozog, Allison R ^a   Ambrose, Stephen J ^a   Prasad, Satendra ^b   Belford, Michael ^b   Dunyach, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

DMS; Electrospray; FAIMS; Gas additives; Gas phase separation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; PHASE SEPARATION; TISSUE; VAPORS;

CYLINDRICAL ELECTRODES; DMS; ELECTROSPRAYS; FAIMS; GAS-PHASE SEPARATIONS; SIGNAL INSTABILITIES; UNIFORM ELECTRIC FIELDS; UNREGULATED CONTAMINANTS;

NITROGEN;

2 PROPANOL; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETONITRILE; ALANINE; BETAINE; CHOLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HELIUM; ION; METHANOL; NITROGEN; PARACETAMOL; RESERPINE; SOLVENT;

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC WAVEFORM ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSPRAY; ELUTION; GAS; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEEDLE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE; VAPOR; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84904052416     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-014-0878-z     Document Type: Article

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