Many of the significant advances in our understanding of atmospheric particles can be
attributed to the application of mass spectrometry. Mass spectrometry provides high …

Combined IR and UV laser spectroscopic techniques in molecular beams merged with
theoretical approaches have proven to be an ideal tool to elucidate intrinsic structural …

The Soot Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (SP-AMS) was developed to measure the
chemical and physical properties of particles containing refractory black carbon (rBC). The …

Long considered a niche technique, SPI is now enjoying more visibility. Hanley of the
University of Illinois Chicago and Zimmermann of the University of Rostock (Germany) …

The stability and distributions of small water clusters generated in a supersonic beam
expansion are interrogated by tunable vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation generated at a …

Autoxidation is an autocatalytic free-radical chain reaction responsible for the oxidative
destruction of organic molecules in biological cells, foods, plastics, petrochemicals, fuels …

Tunable synchrotron radiation provides a universal yet selective scalpel to decipher
molecular information in complex chemical systems when coupled to mass spectrometry …

Lasers with pulse lengths from nanoseconds to femtoseconds and wavelengths from the mid-
infrared to extreme ultraviolet (UV) have been used for desorption or ablation in mass …

Proline is a unique amino-acid, with a secondary amine fixed within a pyrrolidine ring
providing specific structural properties to proline-rich biopolymers. Gas-phase proline …

Scientists at the Chemical Dynamics Beamline of the Advanced Light Source in Berkeley are
continuously reinventing synchrotron investigations of physical chemistry and chemical …