Micron-sized pillars for ion-pair reversed-phase DNA separations
Wim De Malsche1, Lei Zhang, Jeff Op De Beeck
1Department of Chemical Engineering at the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Brussels, Belgium. wdemalsc@vub.ac.be
Abstract:
In the present paper, the feasibility to construct micron-sized silicon pillar channels to be used in HPLC is studied. For this, a channel with flow-through pores of 1 μm and with critical sidewall dimensions below 1 μm was constructed using advanced deep-UV lithographic equipment. Integrating a 3-nL injection system on the chip directly in front of the separation channel and using elongated distribution structures, a very controlled and high aspect ratio sample definition across the relatively wide separation channel was accomplished. The system was evaluated in isocratic ion-pair RP mode, allowing the separation of a mixture of two components with, respectively, 300 and 400 base pairs in 5 s only.
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