Ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) is an analytical technique used to separate gas-phase ions based on their structural properties such as size and shape as well as their mass, in the IM and MS dimensions, respectively. Furthermore, this analytical technique has become a widely used tool for a wide variety of fields. Its great sensitivity and selectivity provides scientists numerous advantages for the analysis of complex samples of numerous analyte types (biomolecules, synthetic polymers, metals, etc.) spanning a broad dynamic range. It is well known, that MS can be greatly improved when a separation is performed prior to ionization, more commonly liquid chromatography (LC). However, in the pursuit of faster separations and increased analyte coverage, both gas- and condensed phase techniques such as ion mobility (IM), supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and size exclusion chromatography (SEC) have been implemented. Their orthogonality was explored in the metabolome characterization of a wide variety of biological and synthetic samples.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-04202016-114145 |
| Date | 21 April 2016 |
| Creators | Montenegro Burke, Jose Rafael |
| Contributors | Janet E. Macdonald, John A. McLean, David E. Cliffel, David M. Hercules, Ned A. Porter |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-04202016-114145/ |
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