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Acoustic levitators generate acoustic standing waves between a transducer and a concave reflector. These acoustic waves are separated by multiple integer numbers of half wavelengths. Thus, acoustic levitation is the effect that a small volume (5 nL-10 μL) of sample can be levitated in a contact-free manner. Until now, levitation in analytical chemistry has primarily been associated with optical techniques such as Raman, X-Ray or UV/Vis spectroscopy. Less common applications are combinations of acoustic levitation with mass spectrometry. One reason for this being that the acoustic field surrounding the droplet effectively shields the sample, thus making it inaccessible to most ambient ionization techniques. Any effective investigation of acoustically-levitated droplets therefore requires the physical removal of some of the sample from the confine region of the acoustic trap before analysis.