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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 87, Issue 16, Pages 8210-8217Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b00976
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- Universite de Lyon through the Program Investissements d'Avenir [ANR-1 1-IDEX-0007]
- European Research Council in the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme [320659]
- Agilent Technologies
- Agilent's Application and Core Technology University Research Program [2243]
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We investigated how the temperature and size of charged droplets are affected by the electrospray ionization (ESI) process, using in situ measurements involving laser-induced fluorescence and Mie scattering on a thermal gradient focusing ESI source. Rhodamine dyes were employed as temperature indicators using ratiometric intensity-based fluorescence techniques. The results were compared to lifetime-based techniques using tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)dichlororuthenium-(II) hexahydrate, [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+). Both methods gave similar profiles. Nevertheless, the precision and sensitivity were higher for lifetime-based techniques in comparison to intensity-based techniques. Global warming (with Delta T similar to 10 K) of the ESI plume is reported while the size of the droplet decreases along the plume. The global warming indicates that the conductive thermal transfer (between the superheated sheath gas and the solvent) is predominant and stronger than the cooling effect due to the evaporation of the droplets, and this outcome is effectively reproduced by a diffusion-controlled evaporation model. Thermal gradient focusing ESI sources therefore appear to be efficient sources for evaporating large amounts of solvent, along with an increase in temperature.
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