Application of silicon nanowires and indium tin oxide surfaces in desorption electrospray ionization.

Eur J Mass Spectrom (Chichester)

Laboratory of Molecular Structure Characterization, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Published: March 2009

Two nanostructured surfaces are introduced as advantageous substrates for desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS). Nano-assisted laser desorption/ionization (NALDI) plates coated with silicon nanowires (SiNWs) and indium tin oxide (ITO) layers on glass are both conductive non-polar surfaces that were originally designed as superior substrates for matrix-free laser desorption/ionization. In this study, NALDI/SiNWs and ITO were tested as potentially useful DESI substrates for selected model analytes (cyclosporine, beauverolide, surfactin and nystatin). Both nanostructured surfaces produced more intense and longer-lasting signals than other tested surfaces (polytetrafluoroethylene, glass, polymethylmethacrylate and chromatography paper).

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