Many techniques have been developed to produce nanoparticles. Among them, electrospray has attracted recent research interest because it is an elegant and versatile way to make a broad array of nanoparticles. Electrospray is a technique that uses an electric field to disperse or break up a liquid. Compared with current technologies, such as bulk mixing, high pressure homogenization and double e...

The design and performance of an electrospray ion source for a high resolution magnetic sector mass spectrometer that utilizes a heated capillary has been presented. Low pressure, high sensitivity, stable electrospray, low flow rates, and low electronic noise were important factors in achieving high resolution electrospray mass spectrometry. A unit mass resolution has been achieved for biomolec...

Electrospray process was developed for organic layer deposition onto polymer organic light-emitting diode [PLED] devices in this work. An electrospray can be used to produce nanometer-scale thin films by electric repulsion of microscale fine droplets. PLED devices made by an electrospray process were compared with spin-coated ones. The PLED device fabricated by the electrospray process showed m...

We report a high yielding synthesis of truly monodisperse, thiolate-protected silver clusters via a rationally designed approach. The cluster composition was determined by electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry to be Ag(7)(DMSA)(4), where DMSA represents meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid. The Ag(7) thiolate clusters exhibit distinct optical properties. The approach developed in this wor...

Most electrospray based ambient ionization techniques, e.g., laser ablation electrospray ionization (LAESI), utilize a fixed spray solution composition. Complex samples often contain compounds of different polarity that exhibit a wide range of solubilities in the electrospray solvent. Thus, the fixed spray solution composition limits the molecular coverage of these approaches. Two-barrel theta ...

Within the past decade, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) has rapidly occupied a prominent position for liquid-phase mechanistic studies due to its intrinsic advantages allowing for efficient "fishing" (rapid, sensitive, specific and simultaneous detection/identification) of multiple intermediates and products directly from a "real-world" solution. In this review we attempt to ...