Parameters affecting traveling-wave ion mobility separation

Exploring the influence of ion heating on the accuracy of collision cross-section measurements using a traveling-wave ion mobility device

Ion mobility-mass spectrometry measurements are regularly used in biological chemistry for many applications.  This hot paper from Brandon Ruotolo and colleagues provides useful descriptions of important experimental parameters that affect ion mobility resolution and overall performance, and links this to theory.  One referee commented that this will “be a very useful paper especially to students and researchers who will be using the new generation IM-MS instruments”.

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Characterizing the resolution and accuracy of a second-generation traveling-wave ion mobility separator for biomolecular ions
Yueyang Zhong, Suk-Joon Hyung and Brandon T. Ruotolo
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DOI: 10.1039/C0AN00987C

This paper will be included in a themed issue on Emerging Investigators, Guest Edited by Perdita Barran and Christy Haynes, to be published later this year.

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