ESI ion source comparison

[che313]

Among these sources, how you ordered them from best:

Agilent
Thermo
Ab Sciex
Water

[che313]

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[cbkila]

1. AB Sciex
2. Thermo
3. Waters/Agilent
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10. Bruker

[leadazide]

Thermo recently lauched a new generation of probes and housings. Here all external connections have been eliminated and this is a major improvement over the older style probes! I don't have a big problem with the older style probe but some of the connections could be a pain.

The newer design also helps eliminate background but as I have not struggled with back ground before I have no feeling on this improvement yet..

[Pepter]

The influence of electrospray ion source design on matrix effects.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22791255