Nanoband electrode for high-performance in-channel amperometric detection in dual-channel microchip capillary electrophoresis |
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Authors: | Chen Chuanpin Teng Wei Hahn Jong Hoon |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, BK School of Molecular Science, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea. |
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Abstract: | A nanoband electrode detector integrated with a dual-channel polydimethylsiloxane microchip is proposed for in-channel amperometric detection in microchip capillary electrophoresis. Gold nanoband electrodes, which were fabricated on SU-8 substrates with a 100-nm-width gold layer, were introduced into the dual-channel microchip to be an electrochemical detector. Due to the nano-sized width of the detector, the noise of the amperometric detection was significantly reduced, and a high separation resolution was achieved for monitoring the analytes. The detection sensitivity of the system was improved by high signal-to-noise ratio, and a low detection limit on microchip was obtained for p-aminophenol (2.09 nM). Because of the high resolution in measuring half-peak width, the plate number that is used to evaluate the separation efficiency was 1.5-fold higher than that using 50-μm-width electrochemical detector. The effect of sample injection time and data acquisition time on separation efficiency was investigated, and an attractive separation efficiency was achieved with a plate number up to 17,500. |
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