Journal
JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 42, Issue 3, Pages 346-353Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1165
Keywords
laser desorption/ionization; visible-laser; Nd : YAG laser; gold nanostructure; gold-coated porous silicon; gold nanorods; surface plasmon resonance
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In this report, we describe the visible-laser desorption/ionization of biomolecules deposited on gold-coated porous silicon and gold nanorod arrays. The porous silicon made by electrochemical etching was coated with gold using argon ion sputtering. The gold nanorod arrays were fabricated by electrodepositing gold onto a porous alumina template, and the subsequent partial removal of the alumina template. A frequency-doubled/tripled Nd:YAG laser was used to irradiate the gold nanostructured substrate, and the desorbed molecular ions were mass-analyzed by a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The desorption/ionization of biomolecules for both substrates was favored by the use of the 532-nm visible-laser, which is in the range of the localized surface plasmon resonance of the gold nanostructure. The present technique offers a potential analytical method for low-molecular-weight analytes that are rather difficult to handle in the conventional matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry. Copyright (c) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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