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Assessment of the Feasibility of the Use of Conductive Polymers in the Fabrication of Ion Mobility Spectrometers

This is the first paper to describe a method of making a form of mass spectrometer entirely from plastic moulded components. It is akin to making a mass spectrometer from Lego. The paper comprehensively describes how the materials were chosen, how they were moulded and put together to form the spectrometer and how the resulting instrument was tested. The impact is to show that one can make instruments that have previously been made of metal, glass and ceramics from low cost polymers without greatly degrading the performance.