{"588251":{"#nid":"588251","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Powering mass spec ionization with friction improves sensitivity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u0026rsquo;ve ever rubbed a balloon against your head to make your hair stand on end, you\u0026rsquo;ve experienced triboelectricity. Researchers at Georgia Tech are now putting such electricity\u0026mdash;which is really just an electric charge generated by friction\u0026mdash;to good use: They\u0026rsquo;re using triboelectricity to drive the ionization of molecules in a mass spectrometer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMaterials scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nanoscience.gatech.edu\/group\/Current%20Members\/Group%20Leader\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang.php\u0022\u003EZhong Lin Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, mass spectrometrist \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\/faculty\/fernandez\/\u0022\u003EFacundo M. Fern\u0026aacute;ndez\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and coworkers replace the high-voltage power supplies that usually drive ionization with devices called triboelectric nanogenerators, or TENGs. \u003Cem\u003EThe researchers\u0026nbsp;published their findings in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nnano\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nnano.2017.17.html\u0022\u003ENature Nanotechnology\u003C\/a\u003E. Wang and Fernandez are professors in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-03-03 19:31:28","changed_gmt":"2017-03-03 21:38:52","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"tech tower staircase","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/95\/i10\/Powering-mass-spec-ionization-friction-improves-sensitivity.html","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","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:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":282608,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Zhong%20Lin%20Wang.jpg?itok=9ZQb-49F"}},"564701":{"id":"564701","type":"image","title":"Facundo Fern\u00e1ndez","body":null,"created":"1471462889","gmt_created":"2016-08-17 19:41:29","changed":"1475895369","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:09","alt":"Facundo Fern\u00e1ndez","file":{"fid":"206872","name":"capture1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/capture1.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/capture1.png","mime":"image\/png","size":87671,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/capture1.png?itok=7JPmei2z"}}},"media_ids":["588245","564701"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"13751","name":"Zhong Lin Wang"},{"id":"173654","name":"Fecundo Fernandez"},{"id":"3158","name":"Mass spectrometry"}],"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":""}}}