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EPSRC Reference: EP/D057957/1
Title: Adventure in Chemistry at Warwick
Principal Investigator: Drewello, Dr T
Other Investigators:
Haddleton, Professor DM Scott, Professor P Clark, Dr A
Taylor, Professor PR
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Department: Chemistry
Organisation: University of Warwick
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 04 September 2006 Ends: 03 March 2009 Value (£): 51,555
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Chemical Structure
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The Chemistry Department at Warwick requests funds to support a 24-month programme to pump-prime an adventurous research proposal involving mass spectrometry and chemical physics, materials and interfaces and chemical biology. Existing ionisation techniques for the mass spectrometric analysis of labile molecules (electrospray, matrix-assisted lased desorptio/ionisation) depend on the presence of charge-accepthing features in the analyte. We aim to develop a carbon nanofibre-based ionisation device, which could allow field desorption/ionisation of a much wider range of compounds and, in particular, proteins, polymers and hydocarbons. The carbon nanofibres should afford high electric fields able to ionise by electron withdrawal ( field ionisation ) molecules with high ionisation potentials ; the availability of lower fields should promote ionisation by proton attachment.
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