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Akira Sakakibara1, Shinya Kitagawa, Takao Tsuda
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan.
Abstract:
A capillary electrophoresis system that can apply arbitrary helium gas pressures at both inlet and outlet reservoirs was constructed. The system was used to investigate the effect of pressure on electrophoretic behavior of polystyrene latex particles. The electrophoretic mobility of latex particles was increased with the application of pressure (< 3.0 kgf/cm2). The shrinkage of particle diameter under pressurization was observed using a microscope, however, the magnitude of shrinkage was not enough to explain the increase in electrophoretic mobility. Therefore, the application of pressure might increase the electric charge of the latex particle. Since methanol inhibited the enhancement in the electrophoretic mobility of the latex particles, water might play an important role in increasing mobility.
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