{"588242":{"#nid":"588242","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Mass Spectrometry Gets a New Power Source and a New Life","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMass spectrometry is a chemical analysis and detection tool that has been around for 130 years. In that time there have been so many tweaks and improvements that observers have become a bit blas\u0026eacute; about the next big leap in its development.\u0026nbsp;But the latest improvement out of the Georgia Institute of Technology may be the biggest yet for the venerable old analytical tool. In research described in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nnano\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nnano.2017.17.html\u0022\u003ENature Nanotechnology\u003C\/a\u003E, the Georgia Tech researchers have managed to make mass spectrometry more sensitive than ever before, more portable, cheaper, and even safer...\u0026ldquo;The sensitivity has been increased to being able to detect down to 100 molecules,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nanoscience.gatech.edu\/group\/Current%20Members\/Group%20Leader\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang.php\u0022\u003EZhong Lin\u0026nbsp;Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, adjunct professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry,\u0026nbsp;said in an email interview with IEEE Spectrum. \u0026ldquo;This is the highest ever\u0026quot;...\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/fernandez\/\u0022\u003EFacundo Fern\u0026aacute;ndez\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, added: \u0026ldquo;Our discovery is basically a new and very controlled way of putting charge onto molecules.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-03-03 19:10:22","changed_gmt":"2017-03-03 21:33:11","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"\u00a0Linda Wills","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/nanoclast\/semiconductors\/materials\/mass-spectrometry-gets-a-new-power-souce-and-a-new-life","dateline":{"date":"2017-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588245":{"id":"588245","type":"image","title":"Zhong Lin Wang","body":null,"created":"1488568559","gmt_created":"2017-03-03 19:15:59","changed":"1488568559","gmt_changed":"2017-03-03 19:15:59","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224182","name":"Zhong Lin Wang.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":282608,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang.jpg?itok=FnILqv4f"}},"588246":{"id":"588246","type":"image","title":"Fecundo Fernandez","body":null,"created":"1488568654","gmt_created":"2017-03-03 19:17:34","changed":"1488568654","gmt_changed":"2017-03-03 19:17:34","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224183","name":"Fecundo Fernandez.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Fecundo%20Fernandez.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Fecundo%20Fernandez.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":86406,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Fecundo%20Fernandez.jpg?itok=tbU_Dnxt"}}},"media_ids":["588245","588246"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"3158","name":"Mass spectrometry"},{"id":"13751","name":"Zhong Lin Wang"},{"id":"173654","name":"Fecundo Fernandez"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}