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Area of Science:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Microscopy
  • Aerosol Science

Background:

  • Electrosprayed droplets are crucial for atmospheric pressure ion formation.
  • Conventional light scattering methods are limited to measuring droplets larger than 400 nm due to optical diffraction limits.
  • Accurate measurement of smaller electrosprayed droplets is essential for understanding various chemical and physical processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy method for measuring electrosprayed droplet sizes.
  • To overcome the limitations of conventional light scattering techniques for sub-micron droplet analysis.
  • To investigate factors influencing electrosprayed droplet size, including solvent composition and applied voltage.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized super-resolution fluorescence microscopy in 3D structured illumination microscopy (3D-SIM) mode.
  • Deposited paper sprayed and nanoelectrosprayed droplets (containing rhodamine B and varying glycerol concentrations) onto conductive coverslips.
  • Employed a modified circular Hough transformation in Matlab for precise droplet size determination from acquired images.

Main Results:

  • Successfully measured droplet sizes down to 200 nm, significantly smaller than conventional methods.
  • Paper sprayed droplets ranged from 500 nm to 2 μm, while nanoelectrosprayed droplets were mostly under 1 μm.
  • Demonstrated that increasing glycerol concentration and applied voltage influenced droplet size, with higher glycerol and lower voltage resulting in larger droplets.

Conclusions:

  • The developed 3D-SIM method provides a powerful new tool for characterizing sub-micron electrosprayed droplets.
  • This technique offers approximately half the diameter measurement capability compared to traditional light scattering methods.
  • Further optimization holds potential to measure droplets down to the theoretical SIM resolution limit of ~100 nm.