https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170066
Collision-induced fragmentation and neutralization of methanol cluster cations
1
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Bunsenstr. 1,
10117 Berlin, Germany
2
Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Chemistry, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978,
Israel
Corresponding author: a christen@chemie.hu-berlin.de
Received:
30
November
2000
Published online: 15 September 2001
This contribution addresses the inelastic interaction of positively charged molecular cluster ions with a
solid surface at kinetic energies up to 30 eV/molecule. We report experimental results on the
scattering of mass-selected, protonated methanol cluster cations (CH3OH)nH+, 
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off a diamond-coated silicon surface. In particular we provide fragment size distributions of methanol
cluster ions following their impact on the target, as well as surface-induced neutralization probabilities
of methanol cluster ions as a function of the size and the kinetic energy of the parent clusters.
PACS: 34.30.+h – Intramolecular energy transfer; intramolecular dynamics; dynamics of van der Waals molecules / 34.50.-s – Scattering of atoms and molecules / 34.70.+e – Charge transfer / 36.40.-c – Atomic and molecular clusters / 61.46.+w – Nanoscale materials: clusters, nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanocrystals / 81.16.-c – Methods of nanofabrication and processing / 82.30.-b – Specific chemical reactions; reaction mechanisms / 82.40.-g – Chemical kinetics and reactions: special regimes and techniques
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