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From the Editor 6
Products 49
Ad Index 50
57th ASMS Conference Preview 10
Helen A. Castro
Accelerated Discovery and Quantitation of Lipids in Complex Extracts 12
Brigitte Simons, Gary Impey, and Eva Duchoslav
Anatomy of an Ion's Fragmentation After Electron Ionization, Part I 18
O. David Sparkman, Patrick R. Jones, and Matthew Curtis
High Performance Mass Spectrometry for Small Molecule and Protein Applications 30
Darwin Asa
The Role of Triple Quadrupole GC–MS in Steroid Analysis 33
Aishah Latiff and Melissa Churley
Using High-Resolution LC–MS to Analyze Complex Sample 38
Markus Kellman, Andreas Wieghaus, Helmut Muenster, Lester Taylor, and Dipankar Ghosh
Structured Approach to Method Development for Bioanalytical HILIC–MS-MS Applications 44
A. Carl Sanchez and Monika Kansal
Improving Fluorescence and Raman Techniques for Environmental Microplastic Analysis
March 31st 2025A recent study conducted at the LaserLaB Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands) explored spectroscopic imaging techniques, including Raman and fluorescence microscopy, for characterizing microplastics (MPs), focusing on optimizing sample preparation, particularly density separation, and Nile Red staining.Spectroscopy spoke to Merel Konings, corresponding author of the paper resulting from the study, about her work
New Study Provides Insights into Chiral Smectic Phases
March 31st 2025Researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences have unveiled new insights into the molecular arrangement of the 7HH6 compound’s smectic phases using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and infrared (IR) spectroscopy.