大多数微米滴 (>10微米) 是否在电子喷雾电离中浪费? 来自实时高速成像的洞察力
Chun-Yao Hsu1, Gurpur Rakesh D Prabhu1, Ching-Han Chang1
1Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Rd., Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan.
Analytical chemistry
|September 19, 2023
概括
在质谱学 (MS) 中,电喷射电离 (ESI) 通过将羽毛切割成离散包来改进. 大多数大滴不会导致MS信号,这表明纳米滴是分析剂电离的关键.
科学领域:
- 分析化学 分析化学
- 质谱测量质量谱测量
背景情况:
- 电子喷射电离 (ESI) 是对非挥发性化合物的质谱 (MS) 分析的主要技术.
- ESI本质上是无序的,从泰勒圆和喷气中产生多散点滴.
- 在ESI-MS中,分析信号的很大一部分可能来自小小的滴滴子集.
研究的目的:
- 为MS分析开发一个将电喷雾羽毛切割成离散包的系统.
- 为了研究这些包装中的液滴大小分布和对MS信号的贡献.
- 了解ESI-MS中控制分析物电离的基本过程.
主要方法:
- 开发一个系统,将电子喷雾羽毛切割成毫秒和次毫秒寿命包.
- 使用高速摄像机 (1万/秒) 捕捉电喷剂包的图像.
- 将高速图像与乙氨基的MS信号相关联,以分析滴滴特性及其电离效率.
主要成果:
- 量化滴滴数量 (<300),平均直径 (10-20微米) 和体积 (几十个小升) 在单个电子喷雾包中.
- 证明微米滴 (>10μm) 对MS信号的贡献最小.
- 证实了纳米滴是用于电离的分析分子的主要载体的假设.
结论:
- 在ESI中,大多数MS信号来源于纳米滴,而不是更大的微滴.
- 只有很小一部分发射的微滴有效地运输可电离的分析分子.
- 未来的ESI战略可以通过"充电"最初的微滴来提高效率.
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