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ArticleJournal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry2021

Confined DART-MS for Rapid Chemical Analysis of Electronic Cigarette Aerosols and Spiked Drugs.

Thomas P Forbes, Shannon T Krauss

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Article in Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. E‑Cigarettes Generate Gas Phase Ions.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026
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  3. Nanoelectrode Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry.Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thomas P ForbesNational Institute of Standards and Technology, Materials Measurement Science Division, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7594-5514
Shannon T KraussRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6018-7335
National Institute of Standards and Technology · USRTI International · US

Funding

Intramural NIST DOC 9999-NIST
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A confined direct analysis in a real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) system and method were developed for coupling directly with commercial electronic cigarettes for rapid analysis without sample preparation. The system consisted of a confining heated glass T-junction, DART ionization source, and Vapur interface to assist aerodynamic transport. Suction generated by positioning the electronic cigarette at the junction inlet allowed for direct chemical analysis of aerosolized electronic liquids from both automatic devices powered by drag and manual button-operated devices, which is unachievable with traditional DART-MS. Parametric analyses for the system investigated Vapur suction flow rate, junction heating, puff duration, and coil power levels. Using this method, rapid chemical analyses of electronic cigarette aerosols from electronic liquids, spiked illicit drugs, and polymeric or plasticizer contaminants were performed in <30 s. The confined DART-MS method provides a streamlined tool for rapid screening of illicit and hazardous chemical profiles emitting from electronic cigarettes.

Indexed as

Electronic Nicotine Delivery SystemsAerosolsDronabinolEquipment DesignIllicit DrugsMass SpectrometryMethamphetamineNicotineAerosolsDronabinolIllicit DrugsMethamphetamineNicotinedirect analysis in real timedrugselectronic cigaretteE-liquidmass spectrometryvaping devices

Identifiers

PMID34184882
PMCPMC9969341
OpenAlexW3173758385

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