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Handheld Miniature Ion Trap Mass Spectrometers

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Purdue University
Anal. Chem., 2009, 81 (7), pp 2421–2425
DOI: 10.1021/ac900292w
Publication Date (Web): March 12, 2009
Copyright © 2009 American Chemical Society

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Zheng Ouyang is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University who is interested in MS instrumentation and its application in chemical and biomedical analysis. Robert J. Noll is the managing director of the Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development and a research scientist in the Aston Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry at Purdue. His research interests include physical chemistry, MS, chemometrics, miniature instrumentation, and the Orbitrap analyzer. R. Graham Cooks is a professor at Purdue and is interested in all aspects of MS, from ion motion to ion chemistry, in small instruments and large, and in applications across the sciences. Address correspondence about this article to Cooks at Purdue University, Chemistry Department, 560 Oval Dr., West Lafayette, IN 47907.

Synopsis

In the past 5 years, significant progress has been made in the development of small, low-power, portable, autonomous mass spectrometer systems. Zheng Ouyang, Robert J. Noll, and R. Graham Cooks of Purdue University provide an update on advances in the evolution of these handheld devices.

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