Membrane-introduction mass spectrometry (MIMS) is a method of introducing analytes into the mass spectrometer 's vacuum chamber via a semi-permeable membrane. Usually a thin, gas-permeable, hydrophobic membrane is used, for example polydimethylsiloxane. Samples can be almost any fluid. This chapter focuses on the methods to characterize membranes for pressure driven processes such as reverse osmosis, nano-filtration, ultrafiltration, microfiltration, membrane gas and vapor separation, pervaporation etc. MIMS finds its niche in various scientific domains, with a. Strictly speaking, a spectrometer is any instrument used to view and analyze a range (or a spectrum) of a given characteristic for a substance (for example, a range of mass-to-charge values as in mass spectrometry), or a range of wavelengths as in absorption spectrometry like nuclear magnetic.
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