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Electrospray Wings for Molecular Elephants (Nobel Lecture)
Author(s) -
Fenn John B.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200300605
Subject(s) - electrospray , electrospray ionization , key (lock) , mass spectrometry , nanotechnology , art , chemistry , materials science , chromatography , biology , ecology
From flames to flying elephants : A few years ago the idea of making proteins or polymers “fly” by electrospray ionization (ESI) seemed as improbable as a flying elephant, but today it is a standard part of modern mass spectrometers. The key to this success was the development of free jet technology.