Progress Report on Miniaturized Liquid Chromatography for NeSSI Scott Gilbert, CPAC Visiting Scholar...

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Progress Report on Miniaturized Liquid

Chromatography for NeSSI

Scott Gilbert, CPAC Visiting ScholarCrystal Vision Microsystems LLC

Atofluidic Technologies, LLC

Lab-on-chip approach

Simplicity of operation Reduction of moving

parts – no (mechanical) pumps

Robustness Inexpensive and facile

maintenance

Chip Layout20

mm Column

Inlet lines

Detector electrodes

From Old Setup…

…To New NeSSI Mountable Design

Split flow approach to sampling

Liters per minute

microliters per minute

nanoliters per minute

Fluid Flow Strategy

Functional Integration of -fluidic LC Chip for On-line Sample Pretreatment

micromixer

diluent in

column

mobile phase in

sample in

Rapid Prototyping Using Quick Photolithographic Method

Inkjet printed photomask Finished product

Front Mounted Microfluidic Chip

Back-Mounted Valves

Quantitation of flow splitting

Secondary Flow vs. Main Flow

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Main Flow (ml)min)

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ml/m

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