Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 409, Issue 27, Pages 6387-6396Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-017-0578-1
Keywords
Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS); Near-field infrared microscopy (NFIR); Dialysis membrane; Blood adsorption
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Blood adsorption onto the inside surface of hollow fiber dialysis membranes was investigated by means of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) and near-field infrared microscopy (NFIR) in order to evaluate the biocompatibility and permeability of dialysis membranes. TOF-SIMS is useful for the imaging of particular molecules with a high spatial resolution of approximately 100 nm. In contrast, infrared spectra provide quantitative information and NFIR enables analysis with a high spatial resolution of less than 1 mu m, which is close to the resolution of TOF-SIMS. A comparison was made of one of the most widely used dialysis membranes made of polysulfone (PSf), that has an asymmetric and inhomogeneous pore structure, and a newly developed asymmetric cellulose triacetate (ATA) membrane that also has an asymmetric pore structure, even though the conventional cellulose triacetate membrane has a symmetric and homogeneous pore structure. As a result, it was demonstrated that blood adsorption on the inside surface of the ATA membrane is more reduced than that on the PSf membrane.
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