Droplet-assisted electrospray phase separation using an integrated silicon microfluidic platform
Yan Zhang1, Sungho Kim1, Weihua Shi1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA. yvlasov@illinois.edu.
Lab on a Chip
|December 13, 2021
Abstract:
We report a silicon microfluidic platform that enables monolithic integration of transparent micron-scale microfluidic channels, an on-chip segmentation of analyte flows into picoliter-volume droplets, and a nano-electrospray ionization emitter that enables spatial and temporal separation of oil and aqueous phases during electro-spray for subsequent mass spectrometry analysis.


