A study on the fragmentation of sulfuric acid and dimethylamine clusters inside an atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight mass spectrometer

Alfaouri, Dina; Passananti, Monica; Zanca, Tommaso; Ahonen, Lauri; Kangasluoma, Juha; Kubečka, Jakub; Myllys, Nanna; Vehkamäki, Hanna

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-11-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-11-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-11-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

Research article

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03 Jan 2022

Research article |

| 03 Jan 2022

A study on the fragmentation of sulfuric acid and dimethylamine clusters inside an atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight mass spectrometer

Dina Alfaouri, Monica Passananti, Tommaso Zanca, Lauri Ahonen, Juha Kangasluoma, Jakub Kubečka, Nanna Myllys, and Hanna Vehkamäki

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-11-2022-supplement

Data sets

DinaAlfaouri/A-study-on-the-fragmentation-of-atmospheric-clusters-inside-an-APi-TOF-MS D. Alfaouri https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5801564

Short summary

To study what is happening in the atmosphere, it is important to be able to measure the molecules and clusters present in it. In our work, we studied an artifact that happens inside a mass spectrometer, in particular the fragmentation of clusters. We were able to quantify the fragmentation and retrieve the correct concentration and composition of the clusters using our dual (experimental and theoretical) approach.