Micro‐electrospray with stainless steel emitters
- 5 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
- Vol. 17 (14) , 1541-1547
- https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.1083
Abstract
The physical processes underlying micro-electrospray (micro-ES) performance were investigated using a stainless steel (SS) emitter with a blunt tip. Sheathless micro-ES could be generated at a blunt SS tip without any tapering or sanding if ESI conditions were optimized. The Taylor cone was found to shrink around the inner diameter of the SS tubing, which permitted a low flow rate of 150 nL/min for sheathless microspray on the blunt tip (100 μm i.d. × 400 μm o.d.). It is believed that the wettability and/or hydrophobicity of SS tips are responsible for their micro-ES performance. The outlet orifice was further nipped to reduce the size of the spray cone and limit the flow rate to 50–150 nL/min, resulting in peptide detection down to attomole quantities consumed per spectrum. The SS emitter was also integrated into a polymethylmethacrylate microchip and demonstrated satisfactory performance in the analysis and identification of a myoglobin digest. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords
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