Issue 4, 2016

Desorption of low-volatility compounds induced by dynamic friction between microdroplets and an ultrasonically vibrating blade

Abstract

Friction plays an important role in desorption and/or ionization of nonvolatile compounds in mass spectrometry, e.g., sonic spray, easy ambient sonic-spray ionization, solvent-assisted inlet ionization, desorption electrospray, etc. In our previous work, desorption of low molecular weight compounds induced by solid/solid dynamic friction was studied. The objective of this work was to investigate desorption of low-volatility compounds induced by liquid/solid friction. Water/methanol (1/1) microdroplets with ∼30 μm in diameter were generated by using a piezoelectric microdroplet generator. They were injected to analytes deposited on the flat surface of a blade vibrating ultrasonically with the frequency of 40 kHz. Neutral molecules desorbed from the blade were ionized by a helium dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), generating strong signals for samples including drugs, explosives, and insecticides. These signals were not detected when either the blade vibrator or the piezoelectric microdroplet generator was off. In contrast, for ionic compounds such as 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoro-methylsulfonyl)imide, p-chlorobenzyl pyridinium chloride, and rhodamine B, strong ion signals were obtained when the vibrator and droplet generator were on, but DBD was off. Sub-nanogram limits of detection were attained for low-volatility compounds.

Graphical abstract: Desorption of low-volatility compounds induced by dynamic friction between microdroplets and an ultrasonically vibrating blade

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Oct 2015
Accepted
31 Dec 2015
First published
06 Jan 2016

Analyst, 2016,141, 1398-1404

Author version available

Desorption of low-volatility compounds induced by dynamic friction between microdroplets and an ultrasonically vibrating blade

D. T. Usmanov, K. Hiraoka, H. Wada, S. Morita and H. Nonami, Analyst, 2016, 141, 1398 DOI: 10.1039/C5AN02215K

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