Laser desorption-ionization time of flight mass spectrometry of various carbon materials

• Authors: ŠEDO Ondrej; ALBERTI Milan; JANČA Jan; HAVEL Josef
• Year of publication: 2006
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Carbon
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Field: Inorganic chemistry
• Keywords: Laser irradiation; Carbon clusters; MALDI-TOF MS
• Description: Laser desorption-ionization of various carbon materials (fullerene C60, carbon nanotubes, synthetic diamonds etc.) results in the formation of positively and negatively charged sets of carbon clusters. None of the carbon clusters formed by laser interaction with above described carbon materials possess stable fullerene structure.

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