Multiple Ions Laminar Flow Tube Reactor in tandem with Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (MIFT-TQMS)

Members: Ran Cheng, Yifan Gao, Jianglu Yuan

(Lilly)

Utilizing a 1m long laminar flow tube combined with a large rootsblower, this apparatus emphasizes on studying sufficient gas-phase collisional reactions of thermilized metal clusters, generated in a MagS source and reacting in the fast flow tube.

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