Combination of large-volume sample stacking with an electroosmotic flow pump with field-amplified sample injection on cross-channel chips.

A combination of two online sample concentration techniques, large-volume sample stacking with an electroosmotic flow (EOF) pump (LVSEP) and field-amplified sample injection (FASI), was investigated in microchip electrophoresis (MCE) to achieve highly sensitive analysis. By applying reversed-polarity voltages on a cross-channel microchip, anionic analytes injected throughout a microchannel were first concentrated on the basis of LVSEP, followed by the electrokinetic stacking injection of the analytes from a sample reservoir by the FASI mechanism. As well as the voltage application, a pressure was also applied to the sample reservoir in LVSEP-FASI.