Calibrant-Free Analyte Quantitation via a Variable Velocity Flow Cell.
Calibrant-Free Analyte Quantitation via a Variable Velocity Flow Cell.
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.analchem.6b03527
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发表时间:
2017-01-17
影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
Porter MD
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作者:
Beck JG;Skuratovsky A;Granger MC;Porter MD
In this paper, we describe a novel method for analyte quantitation that does not rely on calibrants, internal standards, or calibration curves but, rather, leverages the relationship between disparate and predictable surface-directed analyte flux to an array of sensing addresses and a measured resultant signal. To reduce this concept to practice, we fabricated two flow cells such that the mean linear fluid velocity, U, was varied systematically over an array of electrodes positioned along the flow axis. This resulted in a predictable variation of the address-directed flux of a redox analyte, ferrocenedimethanol (FDM). The resultant limiting currents measured at a series of these electrodes, and accurately described by a convective-diffusive transport model, provided a means to calculate an “unknown” concentration without the use of calibrants, internal standards, or a calibration curve. Furthermore, the experiment and concentration calculation only takes minutes to perform. Deviation in calculated FDM concentrations from true values was minimized to less than 0.5% when empirically derived values of U were employed.