PREFACE ....................................................... vii
CONTRIBUTORS ................................................... ix
CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW OF MS AND MALDI MS FOR POLYMER ANALYSIS ..... 1
Liang Li
CHAPTER 2 IONIZATION PROCESSES AND DETECTION IN MALDI-MS OF
POLYMERS ............................................. 9
Renato Zenobi
CHAPTER 3 TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR POLYMER
CHARACTERIZATION .................................... 27
Liang Li and Randy M. Whittal
CHAPTER 4 POLYMER ANALYSIS WITH FOURIER TRANSFORM MASS
SPECTROMETRY ........................................ 53
Sabine Borgmann and Charles L. Wilkins
CHAPTER 5 TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY AND POLYMER ION
DISSOCIATION ........................................ 85
Michael J. Polce and Chrys Wesdemiotis
CHAPTER 6 CONVENTIONAL MALDI SAMPLE PREPARATION .............. 129
Kevin G. Owens and Scott D. Hanton
CHAPTER 7 SOLVENT-FREE MALDI SAMPLE PREPARATION .............. 159
Sarah Trimpin
CHAPTER 8 MALDI MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR THE QUANTITATIVE
DETERMINATION OF POLYMER MOLECULAR MASS
DISTRIBUTION ....................................... 187
Charles M. Guttman and William E. Wallace
CHAPTER 9 NEW APPROACHES TO DATA REDUCTION IN MASS
SPECTROMETRY ....................................... 205
William E. Wallace, Anthony J. Kearsley, and
Charles M. Guttman
CHAPTER 10 MALDI-MS/MS FOR POLYMER STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION
ANALYSIS ........................................... 219
Anthony T. Jackson
CHAPTER 11 LC-MALDI MS FOR POLYMER CHARACTERIZATION ........... 247
Steffen M. Weidner and Jana Falkenhagen
CHAPTER 12 MALDI MS APPLICATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL POLYMERS ...... 267
Scott D. Hanton and Kevin G. Owens
INDEX ......................................................... 289
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