Legionnaires' disease cases have increased nearly tenfold in recent decades, leading to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths. Outbreaks are linked to Legionella, a bacteria found in ...

To break free from an atom, the negatively charged electron typically has to absorb a high-energy photon, such as that from the ultraviolet (UV) or x-ray spectrum. The electron then gets excited ...

Bipolar ionization technology releases charged atoms that attach to and deactivate harmful substances like bacteria, mold, allergens, and viruses. It first arrived in the US in the 1970s as a tool to ...

Researchers have for the first time measured the first ionization energy of lawrencium, the last of the actinides, validating predictions of the element’s electronic structure (Nature 2015, DOI: ...

In this interview, AZoM talks to Ed Sprake, Principal Product Manager at Waters, about the work Waters do with ambient ionization in mass spectrometry and the potential that this innovation has.

Ionization systems, installed in medical device manufacturing facilities’ gown-up rooms and product transfer areas have proven to be critical components in reducing particle counts in the associated ...

In a step toward steering electrons inside molecules to control chemical reactivity, researchers report following electron-hole migration in iodoacetylene (H–C≡C–I) with 100-attosecond resolution ...

What is mass spectrometry and how does mass spectrometry work? MS is a form of chemical analysis used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) of atoms and/or molecules in a sample. It is also ...