The detection of explosives and explosive-related compounds has become a heightened
priority in recent years for homeland security and counter-terrorism applications. There has …

Border control for homeland security faces major challenges worldwide due to chemical
threats from national and/or international terrorism as well as organized crime. A wide range …

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 …

When fast detection of chemical warfare agents in the field is required, the ion mobility
spectrometer may be the only suitable option. In their article, Marko A. Mäkinen, Osmo A …

In recent years, explosive materials have been widely employed for various military
applications and civilian conflicts; their use for hostile purposes has increased considerably …

The general principles and technical implementations of traditional time-of-flight ion mobility
spectrometers and analyzers with field-dependent mobilities were reviewed in our last …

The greatest challenge for European drug policies is how to effectively respond to the
dynamic and constantly changing market for new psychoactive substances (NPS). Even …

Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) is a valued field detection technology because of its speed
and high sensitivity, but IMS cannot easily resolve analytes of interest within mixtures …

High-performance ion mobility spectrometry (HPIMS) with electrospray ionization (ESI) has
been used to separate drugs of abuse compounds as a function of drift time (ion mobility) …

A commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) ion trap mobility spectrometry (ITMS) based explosive
trace detector (ETD) has been interfaced to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS/MS) …