Continuous pollution issues with increasing types of contaminants have emerged in recent years and attracted global attention. Fast, precise, and reliable analytical methods for screening and determination of targeted and unknown pollutants are desired to evaluate the changing pollution situations and potential environmental effects. The rapid development of ambient ionization mass spectrometry (AIMS) renders good opportunities to in-situ, real-time, and rapid analysis for trace emerging environmental pollutants with minimal or no sample pretreatment. In this review article, the ionization mechanisms, configurations of the instruments, hyphenations with various compatible pretreatment means and analytical devices, and operation parameters are discussed. In particular, the typical applications of AIMS for detecting multitude of pollutants present in various environmental samples are summarized.

近年来，随着污染物种类的增加，连续污染问题已经出现并引起了全球关注。需要快速，精确和可靠的分析方法来筛选和确定目标污染物和未知污染物，以评估不断变化的污染状况和潜在的环境影响。环境电离质谱（AIMS）的快速发展为原位分析提供了很好的机会最少的样品预处理或不进行样品预处理，即可进行实时，快速的痕量环境污染物的快速分析。在这篇综述文章中，将讨论电离机理，仪器配置，具有各种兼容的预处理手段和分析设备的连字符以及操作参数。特别是，总结了AIMS在检测各种环境样品中存在的多种污染物中的典型应用。