Instrument: Autoflex Speed TOF/TOF System (Bruker)

Method for characterization of synthetic polymers and biopolymers

• Analysis of monomer units, cyclic structures as well as start/head and end groups in polymerchains
• Determination of molecular masses and molecular mass distributions of homo- and copolymers with narrow polydispersity (pd <  1.2)
• Characterization of products of decomposition and by- products
• Using of MALDI data for interpretation and discussion of reaction mechanisms
• Coupling of MALDI with chromatographic techniques in order to characterize the molecular and chemical heterogeneities of polymers