“…Reactive landing, which constitutes a special type of ion deposition where chemical bonds are formed with the surface, has been applied extensively for modification of surfaces using beams of polyatomic ions (Shen et al, ; Hanley & Sinnott, 2002; Jacobs, ; Wang & Laskin, ). Examples of reactive deposition, including the covalent modification of SAMs (Pradeep et al, ; Evans et al, ; Wade et al, ; Hu et al, ), modification of polymer films using hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon ions (Ada et al, ; Wijesundara et al, ,; Hanley & Sinnott, 2002), formation of metal oxide coatings on MALDI plates for enrichment of phosphopeptides through deposition of metal alkoxide ions (Blacken et al, , ; Krásný et al, ), immobilization of biomolecules (Volny et al, ,; Wang et al, ), dendrimers (Hu & Laskin, ), metal and carbon clusters (Bottcher et al, , ; Loffler et al, ; Ulas et al, ,), and organometallic complexes (Johnson & Laskin, ; Johnson et al, ; Nagaoka et al, ; Pepi et al, ) on surfaces are discussed in detail in section 4c.…”