Custom-Built Laser Source (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Custom-Built Laser Source

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Custom-built laser source for mass spectrometry imaging: By means of improved Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization (LAESI) the surfaces of non-flat samples -- for example this coarse piece of savoy cabbage -- can now be chemically analyzed.

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Benjamin Bartels, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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