Inside Cover: Giving Gold Wings: Ultrabright and Fragmentation Free Mass Spectrometry Reporters for Barcoding, Bioconjugation Monitoring, and Data Storage (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 21/2023)

Abstract

Combining N-heterocyclic carbenes with gold nanoparticles provides an ultrabright and fragment-free ionization platform for laser-desorption mass spectrometry. In their Research Article (e202219182), David M. Jenkins, Jon P. Camden et al. show that NHC functionalized nanoparticles can “give gold wings” in the mass spectrometer, enabling next generation applications of mass barcoding, data storage, and bioconjugation reaction monitoring.