In Star Trek, Mr. Spock’s hand-held tricorder can instantly tell what something is made of. We don’t have tricorders yet, but we’re getting close. Portable devices just a little too big to hold in one ...

Effective protein characterization depends on the precise isolation and fragmentation of peptide ions within the mass spectrometer, typically coupled with liquid chromatography (LC-MS/MS). In a ...

Electron ionization (EI) is a hard ionization method that is typically used with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The mass spectral fragmentation patterns generated by EI are used for ...

The ability to measure mass to charge ratio of the ions in mass spectrum is the most important feature of the high-resolution mass spectrometers. An analyte's identification can be progressed further ...

A disassembled charge-detection mass spectrometry ion trap. A disassembled charge detection mass spectrometry ion trap Credit: Gwendolyn Jarrold At the University of Oxford, Justin Benesch studies ...

What is time-of-flight mass spectrometry? How ToF MS has gained more interest since the commercialization of MALDI. Why a high-speed ADC is key to ToF MS performance. Mixed-signal front end that ...