Photo of the housing for a charge-detection mass spectrometer. Shown here is the housing for a charge detection mass spectrometry cell. The round electrode is one end of the ion trap.

At ASMS 2025, the Technology Networks team caught up with Jim Langridge, Director, Advanced MS Technologies & Scientific Fellow at Waters, who shared exciting recent developments in mass spectrometry.

The method that Dr. Miller and her team have developed is called "Shotgun ion mobility mass spectrometry sequencing" or SIMMS2. It’s a complicated name and an even more complicated process akin to ...

In mass spectrometry imaging we use many different ion sources, some of which operate at high vacuum. But, the really cool thing that I am doing at the moment is the development of ambient ion sources ...

Ion mobility spectrometry coupled with mass spectrometry (IMS-MS) is a powerful hyphenated technology widely used for pharmaceutical applications that benefit from increased measurement ...

The low power discharge, approximately 7 W, was generated between the entrance of the Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometer (MBMS) analyzer and the plasma source, as depicted in Figure 1. Figure 1.

Soft ionization and appearance potential mass spectrometry need ion source control; Long-term stability is improved (less than 0.5% height change over 24 hours) The RF-only pre-filter stage improves ...

Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) has developed over the years into a powerful analytical tool for elemental analysis. Over the past 40 years these techniques have been utilized to make molecular ...

Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter (DOM) along a river to ocean transect of the lower Chesapeake Bay by ultrahigh resolution electrospray ionization Fourier trans- form ion ...

News on secondary ion mass spectrometry. Date. 6 hours 12 ... reported the discovery of abiotic organic compounds in the oceanic crust of the Southwest Indian Ridge and proposed a molecular ...