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DOI 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02883
Titel (primär) Coupling droplet microfluidics with ion mobility spectrometry for monitoring chemical conversions at nanoliter scale
Autor Hartner, N.T.; Wink, K.; Raddatz, C.-R.; Thoben, C.; Schirmer, M.; Zimmermann, S.; Belder, D.
Quelle Analytical Chemistry
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
Department SOMA
Band/Volume 93
Heft 40
Seite von 13615
Seite bis 13623
Sprache englisch
Topic T7 Bioeconomy
Supplements https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02883/suppl_file/ac1c02883_si_001.pdf
Abstract We introduce the coupling of droplet microfluidics and ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) to address the challenges of label-free and chemical-specific detection of compounds in individual droplets. In analogy to the established use of mass spectrometry, droplet–IMS coupling can be also achieved via electrospray ionization but with significantly less instrumental effort. Because IMS instruments do not require high-vacuum systems, they are very compact, cost-effective, and robust, making them an ideal candidate as a chemical-specific end-of-line detector for segmented flow experiments. Herein, we demonstrate the successful coupling of droplet microfluidics with a custom-built high-resolution drift tube IMS system for monitoring chemical reactions in nL-sized droplets in an oil phase. The analytes contained in each droplet were assigned according to their characteristic ion mobility with limit of detections down to 200 nM to 1 μM and droplet frequencies ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 Hz. Using a custom sheath flow electrospray interface, we have further achieved the chemical-specific monitoring of a biochemical transformation catalyzed by a few hundred yeast cells, at single droplet level.
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Hartner, N.T., Wink, K., Raddatz, C.-R., Thoben, C., Schirmer, M., Zimmermann, S., Belder, D. (2021):
Coupling droplet microfluidics with ion mobility spectrometry for monitoring chemical conversions at nanoliter scale
Anal. Chem. 93 (40), 13615 - 13623 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02883