Currently, non-biodegradable oil-based plastics are gradually being replaced by bio-based
biodegradable plastics to prevent the formation of microplastics. For biodegradable …

This review covers the application of mass spectrometry (MS) and its hyphenated
techniques to synthetic polymers of varying architectural complexities. The synthetic …

Multidimensional mass spectrometry interfaces a suitable ionization technique and mass
analysis (MS) with fragmentation by tandem mass spectrometry (MS2) and an orthogonal …

Ever since the inception of synthetic polymeric materials in the late 19th century, the number
of studies on polymers as well as the complexity of their structures have only increased. The …

Modern industry strongly relies on the molecular analysis of fossil petroleum and petroleum-
derived materials. In the context of a circular economy and carbon neutrality, the chemical …

The concept of a fractional base unit for the Kendrick mass defect (KMD) analysis of polymer
ions is introduced for the first time. A fraction of the ethylene oxide (EO) repeat unit (namely …

In this paper, catalyzed and non-catalyzed water-initiated Ring-Opening Polymerization
(ROP) of ε-caprolactone (ε-CL) under various thermodynamic conditions (T= 293–393 K and …

Thermal desorption/degradation with an atmospheric solids analysis probe (ASAP) and ion
mobility (IM) separation are coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) analysis and tandem …

This review covers applications of ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) hyphenated to mass
spectrometry (MS) in the field of synthetic polymers. MS has become an essential technique …

Ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) has emerged as a powerful separation and
identification tool to characterize synthetic polymer mixtures and topologies (linear, cyclic …