MultiQ-IT mass spectrometer can hold up to ten billion charges simultaneously, roughly 1,000 times the capacity of conventional traps

https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/39200-most-mass-spectrometers-can-process-just-a-few-molecules-at-once-a-reengineered-prototype-does-a-billion-simultaneously/

"mass spectrometers process ions sequentially, overcome replacing core ion-trapping chamber with cube-shaped device having >1K electrically controlled openings... electrical voltage barriers let abundant background molecules leak out while trapping rarer, information-rich molecules, improving signal-to-noise ratio as much as 100X... tracking 1,000s chemical reactions simultaneously, structural biology, reading single cell's full protein content where rare molecules often drowned out by abundant ones"

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