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Explosives and Chemical Warfare Agents

  1. Reduction in False Positive Responses for Explosives Detection Using Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry (IMMS), Herbert H. Hill, Jr., Prabha Dwivedi, and Abu B. Kanu, Bulletin of Laser and Spectroscopy Society of India, 2006, 14, 92-103.

  2. Ion Mobility Spectrometry for Monitoring the Destruction of Chemistry Warfare Agents, Herbert H. Hill and Wes. E. Steiner, in Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons, pages 157-166, V. M. Kolodkin and W. Ruck (eds.) Springer, 2006.

  3. Detection of Aqueous Phase Chemical Warfare Agent Degradation Products by Negative Mode Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry [IM(tof)MS], Wes. E. Steiner, Charles S. Harden, Feng Hong, Steve J. Klopsch, Herbert H. Hill, Jr., and Vincent M. McHugh, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2006, 17, 241-245.

  4. Separation Efficiency of a Chemical Warfare Agent Simulant in an Atmospheric Pressure Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer, Wes E. Steiner, William A. English, and Herbert H. Hill, Analytica Chimica Acta, January 2005.532(1), 37-45

  5. Detection of a Chemical Warfare Agent Simulant in Various Aerosol Matrices by Ion Mobility Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry, Wes E. Steiner, Steve J. Klopsch, William A. English, and Herbert H. Hill, Analytical Chemistry 2005, 77(15), 4792-4799

  6. Surface Detection of Chemical Warfare Agent Simulants and Degradation Products, Abu B. Kanu, Paul E. Haigh and Herbert H. Hill, Analytica Chimica Acta, 553, 148-159, 2005.

  7. Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry for Monitoring the Destruction of Chemical Warfare Agents, Herbert H. Hill and Wes. E. Steiner, NATO-Russia Advanced Research: Ecological Risk Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons,, 2004, 157-166. (Invited)

  8. Secondary Electrospray Ionization-Ion Mobility Spectrometry (SESI-IMS) for Explosive Vapor Detection, Maggie Tam and Herbert H. Hill, Jr., Analytical Chemistry, 76 (10) 2741-2747 (2004).

  9. Secondary Ionization of Chemical Warfare Agent Simulants: Atmospheric Pressure Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry, Wes. E. Steiner, Brian H. Clowers, Paul E. Haigh, and Herbert H. Hill, Analytical Chemistry, 75, 6068-6076, 2003. 

  10. Rapid Screening of Aqueous Chemical Warfare Agent Degradation Products: Ambient Pressure Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry, W. E. Steiner, B. H. Clowers, L. M. Matz, W. F. Siems, and H. H. Hill, Jr., Analytical Chemistry, 74,4343-4352 (2002)* (Also featured in Medline, 2002, PMID: 12236341).

  11. Construction and Characterization of a High-Flow, High-Resolution Ion Mobility Spectrometer for Detection of Explosives After Personnel Portal Sampling, Ching Wu, Wes E. Steiner, Pete S. Tornatore, Laura M. Matz, William F. Siems, David A. Atkinson, Herbert H. Hill, Jr., Talanta, 57(1), 123-134, 2002.

  12. Conventional Analytical Methods for Chemical Warfare Agents, H. H. Hill and S. J. Martin, Pure Appl. Chem. , 74(12), 2281-2291, 2002.

  13. Evaluation of Suspected Interferents for TNT Detection by Ion Mobility Spectrometry, Laura M. Matz, Pete S. Tornatore, Herb H. Hill, Jr., Talanta, 54, 171-179, 2001.

  14. Analysis of Explosives Using Electrospray Ionization / Ion Mobility Spectrometry (ESI/IMS), G. R. Asbury, J. Klasmeier, and H. H. Hill, Jr.,  Talanta, 50(6), 1291-1298, 2000.

  15. Separation and Identification of Some Chemical Warfare Degradation Products Using Electrospray High Resolution Ion Mobility Spectrometry With Mass Selected Detection, G. R. Asbury, C. Wu, W. F. Siems, and H. H. Hill, Jr.,  Anal. Chimica Acta, 404(2), 273-283, 2000.

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