Ultrahigh-Resolution Differential Ion Mobility Spectrometry Using Extended Separation Times
- 30 November 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 83 (1), 23-29
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ac102689p
Abstract
Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), and particularly differential IMS or field asymmetric waveform IMS (FAIMS), is emerging as a versatile tool for separation and identification of gas-phase ions, especially in conjunction with mass spectrometry. For over two decades since its inception, the utility of FAIMS was constrained by resolving power (R) of less than ∼20. Stronger electric fields and optimized gas mixtures have recently raised achievable R to ∼200, but further progress with such approaches is impeded by electrical breakdown. However, the resolving power of planar FAIMS devices using any gas and field intensity scales as the square root of separation time (t). Here, we extended t from the previous maximum of 0.2 s up to 4-fold by reducing the carrier gas flow and increased the resolving power by up to 2-fold as predicted, to >300 for multiply charged peptides. The resulting resolution gain has enabled separation of previously “co-eluting” peptide isomers, including folding conformers and localization variants of modified peptides. More broadly, a peak capacity of ∼200 has been reached in tryptic digest separations.Keywords
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