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ArticleiScience2025

Shaping electrospray plume with convergent sound beams.

Yu-Hao Chen, Min-Min Hung, Pawel L Urban

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Article in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Yu-Hao ChenDepartment of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan.
Min-Min HungDepartment of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan.
Pawel L UrbanDepartment of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electrospray ionization (ESI) is one of the mainstream ionization techniques for mass spectrometry (MS) nowadays. Here, we present a new variant of ESI-MS setup, in which an electrospray emitter points to the mass spectrometer's orifice while the collimated sound (from one or four woofers) propagates orthogonally to the plume and MS inlet axis. First, we investigated deflection of electrospray microdroplets of different sizes by the sound waves using high-speed imaging. Low-frequency sound influences microdroplets of different sizes to a varied extent enabling partial separation. Second, we conducted a series of on-line experiments using a range of peptides, polymers, and amino acids. The influence of sound on microdroplet motion is more pronounced at higher amplitudes and lower frequencies of the signal used to generate the sound stream. Our findings provide a way to modulate electrospray process and can impact the application areas of electrospray including MS and materials science.

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AcousticsApplied sciencesNatural sciences

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PMID40641553
PMCPMC12245440

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