High-Performance Ion Mobility Spectrometry

The unique separation mechanism, speed of analysis, and portable instrumentation has made ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) the method of choice for military and homeland security applications for the detection of explosives and chemical warfare agents. Most recently, the applications of IMS, especially hyphenated with other analytical techniques such as chromatography and mass spectrometry, have grown to include a wide range of analytical applications such as metabolomics, pharmaceutical analysis, environmental monitoring, and “foodomics.” This chapter critically reviews applications using IMS for the determination of different families of compounds in food composition, food flavors, food processing, and food contaminants.