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Cover Feature: Amorphous Conjugated Polymers as Efficient Dual‐Mode MALDI Matrices for Low‐Molecular‐Weight Analytes (ChemPlusChem 9/2019)
Author(s) -
Horatz Kilian,
Ditte Kristina,
Prenveille Thomas,
Zhang KeNan,
Jehnichen Dieter,
Kiriy Anton,
Voit Brigitte,
Lissel Franziska
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chempluschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.801
H-Index - 61
ISSN - 2192-6506
DOI - 10.1002/cplu.201900424
Subject(s) - amorphous solid , polymer , analyte , crystallinity , conjugated system , cover (algebra) , materials science , feature (linguistics) , matrix (chemical analysis) , chemical engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , chromatography , composite material , engineering , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy
The cover feature shows that amorphous polymer inks allow the analysis of low‐molecular‐weight compounds in both positive and negative modes, even though MALDI matrices are traditionally highly crystalline. The amorphous polymers perform better than a related semicrystalline system, suggesting that analyte incorporation takes place in the amorphous phase and therefore significantly broadening matrix design rules. More details can be found in the Full Paper by F. Lissel and co‐workers on page 1338 in Issue 9, 2019 (DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201900203).