Solutions passed through a small capillary at 2-10 kV relative to ground are electrosprayed
into a bath gas to form a gaseous dispersion of ions that is expanded into vacuum in a small …

Today's knowledge of free gas-phase cluster ions originates mostly from very recent studies.
This review first summarizes exciting recent discoveries, the potential role of clusters in …

A mass spectrometer system which is capable of sampling ions directly from an atmospheric
pressure source has been constructed and used to investigate ions which are evaporated …

Different mechanisms of desolvation of ions by thermospray (TSP) vaporization of liquids are
critically discussed. It is concluded that field effects cannot play a major role in the …

When concentrated solutions of NaI in formamide with electrical conductivities K larger than
1.1 S/m are electrosprayed from a Taylor cone-jet in a vacuum, ions are evaporated at …

Desorption ionization (DI) involves the transfer of material from a condensed phase to a
collision-free environment (ref. 1, 2). Tandem mass spectrometry (ref. 3), used with …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses several experimental studies conducted on
cluster ions. Cluster ions comprise a nonrigid assembly of components having properties …

The energetics, interfacial properties, instabilities, and fragmentation patterns of
electrosprays made from formamide salt solutions are investigated in a mass spectrometric …

The deprotonation site of p-hydroxybenzoic acid upon electrospray ionization has been a
subject of fervent debate in several articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society …

A direct proof of ion field evaporation from dielectric liquids is presented. The flux of sodium
ions ejected from the surface of an electrospray of formamide is measured using time-of …