IonSense, Inc. is a Massachusetts based company that is developing technology for the analysis of materials by direct analysis in real time or DART

DART ion source

DART is an atmospheric pressure ion source that instantaneously ionizes gases, liquids and solids in open air under ambient conditions. It was developed in 2005 by Laramee and Cody and is now marketed commercially by JEOL and IonSense...

 mass spectrometry

Mass spectrometry

Mass spectrometry is an analytical technique that measures the mass-to-charge ratio of charged particles.It is used for determining masses of particles, for determining the elemental composition of a sample or molecule, and for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules, such as peptides and...

. DART MS provides rapid qualitative and quantitative sample analysis of bioanalytical, medicinal

Medicinal chemistry

Medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry are disciplines at the intersection of chemistry, especially synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmacology and various other biological specialties, where it is involved with design, chemical synthesis and development for market of pharmaceutical...

, forensic, and chemical synthesis

Chemical synthesis

In chemistry, chemical synthesis is purposeful execution of chemical reactions to get a product, or several products. This happens by physical and chemical manipulations usually involving one or more reactions...

 products by ambient mass spectrometry.

IonSense provides the DART Ion Sources which are interfaced to mass spectrometry systems manufactured by JEOL

JEOL

is a manufacturer of electron microscopes and other scientific instruments. Its headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan, with 25 subsidiaries and two associated companies....

, Thermo

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a large life sciences supply company that was created in 2006 by the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific.-Predecessors and merger:...

, Bruker, Applied Biosystems

Applied Biosystems

Applied Biosystems, Inc. started as GeneCo , was the name of a pioneer biotechnology company founded in 1981 in Foster City, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area...

, Agilent, and Waters

Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation is a publicly traded laboratory analytical instrument and software company headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts. The company employs more than 5,000 people, with manufacturing facilities located in Milford, Taunton, Massachusetts; Wexford, Ireland; Manchester, England; and...

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