Journal
ELECTROPHORESIS
Volume 42, Issue 7-8, Pages 983-990Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/elps.202000299
Keywords
Capillary zone electrophoresis; Hydrodynamic injection; Injection bias; Microfluidic pump; Pressure‐ driven flow
Funding
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1808507]
- NIH Wyoming INBRE program [P20GM103432]
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This article introduces a microchip device that generates pressure gradients on-chip via electrokinetic means to minimize dead volume in the system, allowing pressure-driven flow to introduce sample zones into a CZE channel with minimal injection bias. This injection technique enabled the introduction of narrow sample plugs with spatial standard deviations down to about 45 μm, and was integrated into a capillary zone electrophoresis process for analyzing amino acid samples with separation resolutions of about 4-6 for the analyte peaks in a 3 cm long analysis channel.
Sample injection in microchip-based capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) frequently rely on the use of electric fields which can introduce differences in the injected volume for the various analytes depending on their electrophoretic mobilities and molecular diffusivities. While such injection biases may be minimized by employing hydrodynamic flows during the injection process, this approach typically requires excellent dynamic control over the pressure gradients applied within a microfluidic network. The current article describes a microchip device that offers this needed control by generating pressure gradients on-chip via electrokinetic means to minimize the dead volume in the system. In order to realize the desired pressure-generation capability, an electric field was applied across two channel segments of different depths to produce a mismatch in the electroosmotic flow rate at their junction. The resulting pressure-driven flow was then utilized to introduce sample zones into a CZE channel with minimal injection bias. The reported injection strategy allowed the introduction of narrow sample plugs with spatial standard deviations down to about 45 mu m. This injection technique was later integrated to a capillary zone electrophoresis process for analyzing amino acid samples yielding separation resolutions of about 4-6 for the analyte peaks in a 3 cm long analysis channel.
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