Ionic clusters kinetic method

Ionic evaporation can be evidenced by studying carefully the shape of the mass peaks in time-of-flight mass spectroscopic measurements. The simple method used here to identify evaporation has already been demonstrated [28-31]. It is based on the detection of the translational energy if an evaporation occurs, some kinetic energy is released and its evaluation allows one to distinguish between non-evaporating clusters and those that have undergone evaporation. 

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