Disentangling polycationic fullerenes produced from glassy carbon with multireflection time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Autor: Paul Fischer, Lutz Schweikhard
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Physical Review Research, Vol 4, Iss 4, p 043187 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.043187
Popis: Carbon-cluster ions are produced by laser irradiation of glassy carbon in high vacuum. In the case of positively charged species, a bimodal cluster distribution including fullerenes with cluster-size-to-charge ratios of up to a few hundred is observed. Resolving isotopologues by use of a multireflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer allows the detection and abundance determination of multiply charged clusters. It is found that mono-, di-, and tricationic fullerenes are produced, have similar size-over-charge-state ranges, and follow log-normal distributions known to be characteristic of an underlying coalescent growth. A statistical simulation is shown to reproduce the results.
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