Miniature Differential Mobility Spectrometry Using Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Positive and negative ion spectra have been obtained with a miniature differential mobility spectrometer equipped with a photoionization source operating at atmospheric pressure. With benzene as a dopant, providing C6H6+ as reactant ion, protonated molecular ions and proton-bound dimer ions were obtained with dimethyl methylphosphonate and butanone. The spectra obtained from gas chromatographic injections of aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, toluene, and the xylenes, produced the molecular ions when the moisture level was very low, but at a high level the hydrated proton was also present. Possible mechanisms for the formation of protonated products are discussed. Negative ions were produced from electron capture by sulfur hexafluoride using benzene or acetone as dopant. Photoionization of nitrogen dioxide led to the formation of the nitrate ion whose yield was a nonlinear function of concentration. The use of a suitable dopant enhanced ion formation by up to 2 orders of magnitude, and limits of detection in both the positive and negative modes were all at the sub ppm(v) level. The study makes a strong case for the use of a photoionization source as an alternative to the radioactive 63Ni source.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.029 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".