A new paper presents the design of a needle-plate dielectric barrier discharge DBD ion source based on 3D printing for high field asymmetric-waveform ion-mobility spectrometry (FAIMS).
In this month's edition of LC Troubleshooting, Dwight Stoll and his fellow researchers discuss both the benefits (improved peak shape/loading) and challenges (excessive interaction) associated with charge-doped reversed-phase (RP) columns for both analytical and preparative separations.
Mass spectrometry (MS) can be effective in identifying unknown compounds, though this can be complicated if spectra is outside of known databases. Researchers aimed to test MS databases using electron–ionization (EI)–MS.