Prof. Talat Yalçın
My research is in mass spectrometry—the areas I have been involved in the deal with both physical and analytical chemistry topics. In particular, my work has studied the properties, structures, and reactions of both positive and negative ions in the gas phase.
One area and one of the significant interests I have been involved in is the fragmentation mechanism of amino acids and peptides. Understanding the reaction mechanism of fragment ions is essential to sequencing unknown peptides or proteins.
Another area of interest I have worked in is method development for methods based on MS for detecting and characterizing biological molecules, such as proteins and peptides.
 
 Another area of interest that I have worked in is method development for the analysis of industrially important polymers.  Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) is synthetic polymers' most crucial ionization method. MALDI provides information on the molecular weight, polydispersity, and mass of the repeating units.