Laser ablation of a U doped carbon rod - “high clustering” conditions

m/z UO 2 28 C 27 Increasing He pressure Laser ablation of a UO 2 /graphite target, with increasing He pressure in pulsed valve Shows little or no evidence of pure fullerenes 28 forms before larger n

m/z UO 2 28 C 27 Increasing He pressure Laser ablation of a UO 2 /graphite target, with increasing He pressure in pulsed valve Shows little or no evidence of pure fullerenes 28 forms before larger n

C 50 Laser ablation of U doped carbon rod - “high clustering” conditions

30 C 50 Laser ablation of U doped carbon rod - “high clustering” conditions

28 is a very strongly favoured species Laser ablation of U doped carbon rod - “high clustering” conditions

C 50 Figure 10 – ablation of U doped rod - “higher clustering” conditions

C 50 Figure 9 – ablation of U doped rod - “higher clustering” conditions

32 UC 4 28 UO & UOH U UO 2 UC 2 30 Figure 11 – Fragmentation of mass selected 32