Nondestructive transfer of complex molecular systems of various origins into aerosol phase by means of submillimeter irradiation of free-electron laser (FEL) of the Siberian center for photochemical research

Original investigations of ablation of minerals, fullerene-like compounds, polymers and complicated biological macromolecules under the action of submillimeter radiation of the free-electron laser (FEL) developed and built at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics [V.P. Bolotin et al., First experiments on high-power Novosibirsk terahertz free-electron laser, Budker INP, 2005, p. 37 [1]] were carried out at the Chemical and Biological Station of the Siberian Center for Photochemical Research. It was shown that ablation might be nondestructive. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.