화학공학소재연구정보센터
Electrophoresis, Vol.22, No.18, 3993-3999, 2001
Miniaturized multichannel electrospray ionization emitters on poly(dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic devices
A multichannel electrospray ionization (ESI) emitter was fabricated as part of a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microfluidic device using a three-layer photoresist process which also produces a self-alignment system to make a bonding between the top and bottom PDMS parts. The prototype device (2 cm high x 5 cm wide x 5 cm long) had 16-channels (30 mum wide x 50 mum deep) with emitters of 1 mm length and 60 degrees point angle. The PDMS emitter tips enabled interfacing the device to ESI-mass spectrometry; a stable electrospray from the tips was performed with limits of detection under 1 muM for reference peptides (adrenocorticotropic hormone fragment 1-17, angiotensin I and III).