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High-frequency AC electrospray ionization source for mass spectrometry of biomolecules

Nishant Chetwani1, Catherine A Cassou, David B Go

  • 1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
|August 10, 2010
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