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Profiling of Permethylated Mucin O-glycans Using Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry
Published on: June 20, 2025
Quantitative analysis of technical polymer mixtures by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight
Wenyan Yan1, Joseph A Gardella, Troy D Wood
1Bausch and Lomb, Inc., Rochester, New York, USA.
Abstract:
We report quantitative MALDI-TOF measurements for polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) of two different molecular weights using the relative ratio of the signal intensities of integrated oligomer distributions for these two molecular weight distributions. By reporting the ratio of intensities of the integrals of two oligomer distributions, we assume that the ionization and desorption efficiencies, crystallization conditions and other factors affecting intensity are similar. Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA-33,000) was mixed with PDMS samples to show whether the presence of another material might affect the desorption efficiency. Quantitative values for the number-average molecular weight (Mn), weight-average molecular weight (Mw) and polydispersities (D) were calculated using the oligomer distributions. The results show a linear relationship between the analyte concentrations and the signal intensities in the range from 1,000 Da to 10,000 Da, and the desorption efficiency of these two PDMS materials was the same even in the presence of PMMA.
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