TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigation of Zero-/High-Field Ion Mobility Orthogonal Separation Using a Hyphenated DMA-FAIMS System and Validation of the Two-Temperature Theory at Arbitrary Field for Tetraalkylammonium Salts in Nitrogen
AU - Gandhi, Viraj D.
AU - Lee, Jihyeon
AU - Hua, Leyan
AU - Latif, Mohsen
AU - Hogan, Christopher J.
AU - Larriba-Andaluz, Carlos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/5/23
Y1 - 2023/5/23
N2 - Toward greater separation techniques for ions, a differential mobility analyzer (DMA) has been coupled with field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) to take advantage of two mobility-related but different methods of separation. The filtering effect of the DMA allows ions to be selected individually based on low-field mobility and studied in FAIMS at variable electric field, yielding mobility separations in two dimensions. Because spectra fully describe ion mobility at variable field strength, results are then compared with a two-temperature theory-predicted mobility up to the fourth-order approximation. The comparison yields excellent results up to at least 100 Td, beyond which the theory deviates from experiments. This is attributed to two effects, the enlargement of the structure due to ion heating and the inelasticity of the collisions with the nitrogen bath gas. The corrected mobility can then be used to predict the dispersion plot through a newly developed implicit equation that circumvents the possible issues related to the more elaborate Buryakov equation. Our results simultaneously show that the DMA-FAIMS coupling yields complete information on ion mobility versus the field-strength to gas-density ratio and works toward predicting such spectra from ion structures and gas properties.
AB - Toward greater separation techniques for ions, a differential mobility analyzer (DMA) has been coupled with field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) to take advantage of two mobility-related but different methods of separation. The filtering effect of the DMA allows ions to be selected individually based on low-field mobility and studied in FAIMS at variable electric field, yielding mobility separations in two dimensions. Because spectra fully describe ion mobility at variable field strength, results are then compared with a two-temperature theory-predicted mobility up to the fourth-order approximation. The comparison yields excellent results up to at least 100 Td, beyond which the theory deviates from experiments. This is attributed to two effects, the enlargement of the structure due to ion heating and the inelasticity of the collisions with the nitrogen bath gas. The corrected mobility can then be used to predict the dispersion plot through a newly developed implicit equation that circumvents the possible issues related to the more elaborate Buryakov equation. Our results simultaneously show that the DMA-FAIMS coupling yields complete information on ion mobility versus the field-strength to gas-density ratio and works toward predicting such spectra from ion structures and gas properties.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00509
DO - 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00509
M3 - Article
C2 - 37172072
AN - SCOPUS:85160764620
SN - 0003-2700
VL - 95
SP - 7941
EP - 7949
JO - Analytical Chemistry
JF - Analytical Chemistry
IS - 20
ER -