Issue 25, 2016

Integrated electrodes and electrospray emitter for polymer microfluidic nanospray–MS interface

Abstract

Interfacing of microfluidic devices to mass spectrometry has challenges including dilution from sheath liquid junctions, fragile electrodes, and excessive dead volumes which prevent optimum performance and common use. The goal of this work is to develop a stable nanospray chip–MS interface that contains easily integrated electrodes and an embedded capillary emitter to mitigate current chip–MS problems. This system uses a hybrid polystyrene–poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PS–PDMS) microfluidic platform with an embedded electrode and integrated capillary emitter used as the nanospray interface. Two chip designs were used to evaluate the performance, and illustrate on-chip reaction capabilities. By direct infusion, this system showed good performance with LODs of glutathione (GSH) and caffeine of 9 nM and 1 nM, R2 of 0.996 and 0.992 and sensitivity of 12 counts per nM and 332 counts per nM over a linear dynamic range of 40 nM to 50 μm and 1 to 50 μm respectively. A reaction was performed on the chip with syringe pumps showing the oxidation of glutathione (GSH) to oxidized glutathione (GSSG) using H2O2. The on-chip reaction of GSH oxidation to GSSG, with online-MS detection, successfully demonstrates the stability and robustness of the nanospray interface.

Graphical abstract: Integrated electrodes and electrospray emitter for polymer microfluidic nanospray–MS interface

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Technical Note
Submitted
20 Січ 2016
Accepted
31 Тра 2016
First published
01 Чер 2016

Anal. Methods, 2016,8, 5152-5157

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Integrated electrodes and electrospray emitter for polymer microfluidic nanospray–MS interface

A. V. Forzano, V. Becirovic, R. S. Martin and J. L. Edwards, Anal. Methods, 2016, 8, 5152 DOI: 10.1039/C6AY00197A

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