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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Chem. 2017 Oct 30;89(22):12176–12184. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02827

Table 2.

Separation parameters reported for various ion mobility platforms. The “Reference Point” column references the annotations in Figure 4 and in Appendix S1 of the supporting information.

First Author Ref. Point Percent Difference in CCS (%)1 Reported Resolving Power (Rp) 2 Calculated Resolving Power (Rp)3 Experimental Resolution (Rpp)4 Predicted Resolution (Rpp)5 Percent Error in Resolution (%)6 Dispersion Axis Projected in IM Spectra
DTIMS Groessl, M. A 0.4 >250 332 0.84 0.78 7.3 td (ms)
Groessl, M. B 0.8 250 268 1.38 1.26 8.3 td (ms)
Groessl, M. C [1.2] [251] 251 1.77 1.77 −0.3 td (ms)
Asbury, G. R. D [1.2] [130] 131 0.76 0.93 −22.2 td (ms)
Groessl, M. E 1.3 [187] 187 1.31 1.46 −11.8 td (ms)
Pierson, G. U. F 1.7 [66] 66 0.65 0.65 0.1 CCS (Å2)
Tang, G. R. G 1.7 [62] 63 0.58 0.63 −8.0 td (ms)
Dodds, J. N. H 2.3 58 58 0.79 0.79 0.1 CCS (Å2)
Gaye, M. M. I 2.6 [83] 83 1.26 1.26 0.0 CCS (Å2)
Adamov, A. J 3.2 77 72 1.46 1.46 −0.2 K 2 0 (cm/Vs)

TWIMS Deng, L. K 0.4 124 342 0.71 0.26 63.1 td (ms)
Giles, K. L 1.5 [208] 4.34 1.90 56.3 td (ms)
Giles, K. M 5.1 18 40 1.21 0.55 55.0 td (ms)
Giles, K. N 5.7 25 41 1.36 0.83 38.7 td (ms)
Hofmann, J. O 5.9 26 43 1.51 0.88 41.4 td (ms)

TIMS Silveira, J. A. P 1.0 154–183 178 1.05 1.06 −0.3 CCS (Å2)
Bruker Q 1.0 [113] 113 0.68 0.69 −0.6 K0 (cm2/Vs)
Bruker R 1.7 185 177 1.74 1.74 0.1 K0 (cm2/Vs)

OTHER Barnett, D. A. S [1.0] 130 0.83 Voltage (V)
Lee, S. T 2.8 [66] 67 1.09 1.09 0.1 Frequency (Hz)
Glaskin, R. S. U 2.7 121 85 1.42 1.33 6.3 Frequency (Hz)
Glaskin, R. S. V 2.2 417 145 1.90 5.72 185 Frequency (Hz)
1

Calculated from equation 4. Bracketed values were determined using CCS values obtained in the PI’s laboratory

2

Bracketed values were calculated from equation 1 using the dispersion axis provided.

3

Calculated from equation 1 using the CCS-based definition for Rp.

4

Calculated from equation 2 using the dispersion axis provided.

5

Calculated from equation 3 using the dispersion axis provided.

6

Calculated from equation 5.