ABSTRACT

Several review papers on the application of ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and differential mobility spectrometry (DMS) for detection of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) and their simulants have been published during the last decade.1-6 The comprehensive review by Sferopoulos on detector technologies and commercial devices for detection of CWAs is especially noteworthy as it surveyed all the different techniques and included a chapter on IMS-based instrumentation.6