Chemistry Letters, Vol.34, No.8, 1178-1179, 2005
Soft laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry using a pyroelectric ceramic plate
A novel matrix-free soft laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry using a pyroelectric ceramic plate with a flat surface as an ionization platform was developed. Molecular-related ions of thermally unstable compounds such as peptides, oligosaccharides, and surfactants could be observed on the mass spectra with almost no fragmentation of the analytes.