We discuss mini MS systems in terms of individual components and at a systems level.
Portable systems from academic and commercial laboratories are emphasized, but meso …

A mathematical model is developed to analyze electro-kinetic effects on unsteady peristaltic
transport of blood in cylindrical vessels of finite length. The Newtonian viscous model is …

Simulations show that significant ion losses occur within the commercial electrospray
ionization-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometer (ESI-FAIMS) interface owing …

The use of differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) as a separation tool prior to mass
analysis has increased in popularity over the years. However, the fundamental principles …

We provide experimental and theoretical evidence that the primary ionization process in the
dopant-assisted varieties of the atmospheric pressure ionization methods atmospheric …

Numerical simulation has been extensively employed for the design of mass spectrometers.
For a complicated mass spectrometry (MS) system, the employed simulation model highly …

Transfer capillaries are the preferred means to transport ions, generated by electrospray
ionization, from ambient conditions to vacuum. During the transfer of ions through the …

Atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs) can enable large fluxes of reactive species
impinging on treated substrates in many applications. The relative importance of ionic …

The key reactive plasma-produced gas phase species responsible for the enhanced
conversion of chemicals in plasma catalysis compared to thermal catalysis have to date not …

Ion trajectory simulation is an important and useful tool in instrumentation development for
mass spectrometry. Accurate simulation of the ion motion through the mass spectrometer …