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- Title
A Short-Cut Data Mining Method for the Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Block Copolymers.
- Authors
Kuki, Ákos; Róth, Gergő; Nagy, Anna; Zsuga, Miklós; Kéki, Sándor; Nagy, Tibor
- Abstract
A new data mining approach as a short cut method is given for the determination of the copolymer composition from mass spectra. Our method simplifies the copolymer mass spectra by reduction of the number of mass peaks. The proposed procedure, namely the selection of the mass peaks, which is based on the most abundant peak of the mass spectrum, can be performed manually or more efficiently using our recently invented Mass-remainder analysis (MARA). The considerable reduction of the MS spectra also simplifies the calculation of the copolymer quantities for instance the number- and weight-average molecular weights (Mn and Mw, respectively), polydispersity index (Đ = Mw/Mn), average molar fraction (cA) and weight fraction (wA) of the comonomer A and so on. These copolymer properties are in line with those calculated by a reference method taking into account all the mass peaks of the copolymer distribution. We also suggest a highly efficient method and template for the determination of the composition drift by processing the reduced mass spectra.
- Subjects
DATA mining; MASS spectrometry; MOLE fraction; MOLECULAR weights; COPOLYMERS; BLOCK copolymers
- Publication
Processes, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
2227-9717
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3390/pr10010042