Journal
ELECTROPHORESIS
Volume 26, Issue 16, Pages 3160-3168Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/elps.200500148
Keywords
capillary electrophoresis microchip; electrochemical detection; miniaturization; poly(methylmethacrylate); Pt end-channel detector; thermoplastic olefin polymer of amorphous structure
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A capillary electrophoresis (CE) microchip made of a new and promising polymeric material: Topas (thermoplastic olefin polymer of amorphous structure), a cyclic olefin copolymer with high chemical resistance, has been tested for the first time with analytical purposes, employing an electrochemical detection. A simple end-channel platinum amperometric detector has been designed, checked, and optimized in a poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) CE microchip. The end-channel design is based on a platinum wire manually aligned at the exit of the separation channel. This is a simple and durable detection in which the working electrode is not pretreated. H2O2 was employed as model analyte to study the performance of the PMMA microchip and the detector. Factors influencing migration and detection processes were examined and optimized. Separation of H2O2 and L-ascorbic acid (AsA) was developed in order to evaluate the efficiency of microchips using different buffer systems. This detection has been checked for the first time with a microchip made of Topas, obtaining a good linear relationship for mixtures of H2O2 and AsA in different buffers.
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