Applying a high voltage to a liquid passing through a capillary disintegrates the liquid
meniscus to generate a fine spray of charged droplets. As the droplets evaporate, polar …

Mass spectrometric ionization methods that operate under ambient conditions and require
minimal or no sample pretreatment have attracted much attention in such fields as …

Paper spray is developed as a direct sampling ionization method for mass spectrometric
analysis of complex mixtures. Ions of analyte are generated by applying a high voltage to a …

This biennial review discusses advances in the field of ambient sampling/ionization mass
spectrometry (“ambient MS” for short) in the period ranging from January 2009 to January …

The direct interface of microextraction technologies to mass spectrometry (MS) has
unquestionably revolutionized the speed and efficacy at which complex matrices are …

Ambient mass spectrometry—mass spectrometric analysis with no or minimal effort for
sample preparation—has experienced a very rapid development during the last 5 years …

Ambient mass spectrometry (AMS) allows direct molecular characterization of various raw
food samples with minimal or no sample pretreatment. Because of the excellent sensitivity …

Robust, efficient, sensitive and cost-effective analytical methodologies need to be developed
continuously to guarantee food safety, quality and traceability. The rapid development of …

Abstract Analysis of pesticides and their metabolites in food and water matrices continues to
be an active research area closely related to food safety and environmental issues. This …

This review introduces fundamental principles and applications of different types of mass
detector and highlights the novel advances of newly developed mass-spectrometry (MS) …