Human exhaled breath consists of more than 3000 volatile organic compounds, many of
which are relevant biomarkers for various diseases. Although gas chromatography has been …

This review elucidates the technologies in the field of exhaled breath analysis. Exhaled
breath gas analysis offers an inexpensive, noninvasive and rapid method for detecting a …

Key Developments for Faster, More Precise Detection Capabilities Driven by the demand for
the rapid and advanced detection of explosives, chemical and biological warfare agents …

Ion mobility spectrometry, originally used to detect chemical warfare agents, explosives and
illegal drugs, is now frequently applied in the field of process analytics. The method …

Recently, ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) started to be used for direct breath analysis with
respect to metabolic profiling, biomarker finding and gas trace analysis. The present review …

Detection and immediate quantification of microbial metabolic activities is of high interest in
fields as diverse as biotechnology and infection biology. Interestingly, the most direct signals …

In this study, we investigated the reaction mechanism and kinetics of ozone with trans-2-
pentenal using density functional theory (DFT) and conventional transition state theory …

Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) is a well established technique for the detection of many
compounds of interest based on the reduced mobility (K 0) values of their ions. While having …

Volatile organic compounds produced inside the body provide valuable information about
human state of health and they are detected in breath, blood and urine samples. Therefore …

In this paper, the possibility of determination of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present
in the exhaled breath using an ion mobility spectrometer (IMS) has been described. This …