Hydrodynamic chromatography separations in micro- and nanopillar arrays produced using deep-UV lithography (J. Sep. Science 35'15)

DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201200076 Micro-pillar array columns with an inter-pillar spacing down to 500 nm have been designed and fabricated enabling hydrodynamic chromatography separations of fluorescently labeled polystyrene nano-particles. Injecting sub-nanoliter sized sample volumes and detecting the fluorescent signal on-chip, fluorescein, 20 and 40 nm diameter particles could be separated in less than 1.5 minutes.