Microfabricated PDMS multichannel emitter for electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
- Vol. 12 (4) , 463-469
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1044-0305(01)00219-7
Abstract
A novel microfabricated multichannel emitter for electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) was implemented with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) using a soft lithography technique. The emitters are formed as electrospray tips along a thin membrane on the edge of the device with channels of 100 μm × 30 μm dimensions. The electrospray performance of the PDMS emitters for a single channel device and a four channel device interfaced with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer was evaluated for detecting the molecular weight of reference peptides (angiotensin I and bradykinin). The emitters were durable at the flow rate of 1–20 μL min−1 for more than 30 h of continuous electrospray with limit of detection of 1 μM (S/N 18). This microfabrication method for a PDMS multichannel emitter as an integral part of a microfluidic device will facilitate development of more complex microfluidic analysis systems using ESI-MS.Keywords
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