New Processes for Ionizing Nonvolatile Compounds in Mass Spectrometry: The Road of Discovery to Current State-of-the-Art

Trimpin has been gifted by a wonderful body of all sorts of teachers from parents, family, school teachers, professors, colleagues, students, and postdocs. The authors are grateful for the generous support from NSF CAREER 0955975, NSF CHE-1411376 (to S.T.), NSF Phase I 1417124 and Phase II 1556043 including TECP and NSF SBIR Phase I 1913787 (to C.N.M. and S.T.), CHE-1112289 (to C.N.M.), CHE-1500201 and CHE-1904584 (C.N.V.), CHE-1904670 (M.K.P.), CHE-1807358 (S.M.G.), as well as Eli Lilly Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry, DuPont Young Professor Award, and BASF financial support (to S.T.), WSU Schaap Faculty Scholar, OVPR Grants Plus (to S.T.) and CVRI ISIS (to T.H.S. and S.T.), WSU Rumble and Schaap graduate (to E.D.I. and B.W.) and undergraduate fellowships (to A.L.R., C.B.L., and F.S.Y.). NIH R01CA095142 and NIH R01GM090270 (to Z.G.), NIH R01 DA011322 and DA021696 (to K.M.), NIH R01 GM098285 (H.M.N.), NIH R01 HL131740 (to Y.-H.A.). We also thank Dr. David Crich (UGA) for providing standards. MSTM, LLC is currently funded by NIH SBIR, Phase I 1R43AI172667-01A1 and 1R43GM155491-01 (to C.N.M. and S.T., respectively) for vMAI and SAI commercialization technology developments. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.