MALDI Mass Spectrometry for Synthetic Polymer Analysis

Contributors.

1. Overview of MS and MALDI MS for polymer analysis.

2. Ionization Processes and Detection in MALDI-MS of Polymers.

3. Time-of-flight MS for polymer characterization.

4. Polymer analysis with Fourier Transform mass spectrometry.

5. Tandem MS and polymer ion dissociation.

6. Conventional MALDI sample preparation.

7. Solvent-free MALDI sample preparation.

8. MALDI MS for the quantitative determination of polymer molecular mass distribution.

9. New approaches to data reduction in MS.

10. MALDI MS/MS for polymer structure and composition analysis.

11. LC-MALDI MS for polymer characterization.

12. MALDI MS applications for industrial polymers.