Our additives permit us to selectively identify the various intra- and extracellular components of microorganisms, thereby providing us with the potential to rapidly identify such analytes. We have found that these matrices are very promising for selectively ionizing certain nonpolar molecules. We feel that this method holds great promise for the analysis of several difficult compound classes. We have been particularly interested in the analysis of small heteroatom containing molecules, metalloporphyrins, and polymers. Heteroatoms and metalloporphyrins are a significant component of petroleum samples.
Polymer materials are extremely important to a wide variety of scientific disciplines.
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