Modern gas monitoring scenarios for medical diagnostics, environmental surveillance,
industrial safety, and other applications demand new sensing capabilities. This Review …

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 …

Major food adulteration and contamination events occur with alarming regularity and are
known to be episodic, with the question being not if but when another large-scale food …

The technological advances achieved over the last decades boosted the development of
suitable benchtop platforms to work at miniaturized liquid chromatography scale (capillary …

Since the inception of mass spectrometry more than a century ago, the field has matured as
analytical capabilities have progressed, instrument configurations multiplied, and …

With the rapid growth of science and technology, portable mass spectrometers have become
an essential part of analytical instruments for research. In view of this, this article reviews the …

Quantitative pharmaceutical analysis is nowadays frequently executed using mass
spectrometry. Electrospray ionization coupled to a (hybrid) triple quadrupole mass …

There is a growing need for chemical analyses to be performed in the field, at the point of
need. Tools and techniques often found in analytical chemistry laboratories are necessary in …

Peroxide-based explosives (PBEs) are increasingly common in criminal and terrorist activity
due to their easy synthesis and high explosive power. The rise in terrorist attacks involving …

Forensic evidentiary backlogs are indicative of the growing need for cost-effective, high-
throughput instrumental methods. One such emerging technology that shows high promise …