Light and molecular ions: the emergence of vacuum UV single-photon ionization in MS.
Thanks to recent technological advances and single-photon ionization's (SPI's) ability to detect all organics, the technique could become the long-sought universal soft ionization method. (To listen to a podcast about this feature, please go to the Analytical Chemistry Web site at pubs.acs.org/journal/ancham.).
Hanley
Luke
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University of Illinois Chicago, USA. lhanley@uic.edu
Zimmermann
Ralf
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