Abstract. Sulfuric acid and dimethylamine vapours in the atmosphere can form molecular clusters, which participate new particle formation events. In this work, we have produced, measured, identified clusters of sulfuric using an electrospray ionizer coupled with a planar-differential mobility analyser, connected to atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight mass spectrometer (ESI–DMA–APi-TOF...

Excellence Synergic Index (ESI) is a new method for the excellence measurement. This technique is a causal method. ESI method was developed for studying the relations and interaction of excellence criteria and organizational pathology. By “ESI”, it is possible to measure the performance excellence of any service enterprises, to diagnosis organizational pathos and to propose problem-solvin...

A highly sensitive quantitative method for assaying nicotianamine (NA) and 2'-deoxymugineic acid (DMA) using liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-TOF-MS) was developed. The amino and hydroxyl groups of NA and DMA were derivatized using 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl chloride. The amounts of NA and DMA in 10 mul of xylem sap from rice cultivated unde...

Piper tuberculatum (Piperaceae) is a species that accumulates especially amides as secondary metabolites and several biological activities was previously reported. In this article, we report a proteomic study of P. tuberculatum. Bidimensional electrophoresis (2D SDS-PAGE) and mass spectrometry (ESI-Q-TOF) were used in this study. Over a hundred spots and various peptides were identified in this...

High resolution ESI mass spectrometry of the "22 kDa" nanocluster reveals the presence of a mixture containing Au103(SR)45, Au104(SR)45, Au104(SR)46, and Au105(SR)46 nanoclusters, where R = -CH2CH2Ph. MALDI TOF MS data confirm the purity of the sample and a UV-vis spectrum shows minor features. Au102(SC6H5COOH)44, whose XRD crystal structure was recently reported, is not observed. This is due t...

The direct molecular analysis of a live single cell viewed under a video-microscope has been developed. The cell contents are sucked into a nano-electrospray tip, and hundreds of peaks of ionic compounds of low molecular weight are detected by nano-ESI Q-TOF mass spectrometry (MS). Cell-specific MS peaks in a single mouse-embryonic fibroblasts cell are extracted by a t-test, and one of the peak...