Ion Mobility Separations Using Cocentric Architecture.

J Am Soc Mass Spectrom

Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99354, United States.

Published: July 2024

Ion mobility separations, especially using drift tube ion mobility spectrometers, are usually performed in linear channels, which can have a large footprint when extended to achieve higher resolving powers. In this work, we explored the performance of an ion mobility device with a curved architecture, which can have a more compact form. The cocentric ion mobility spectrometer (CoCIMS) manipulates ions between two cocentric surfaces containing a serpentine track. The mobility separation inside the CoCIMS is achieved using traveling waveforms (TWs). We initially evaluated the device using ion trajectory simulations using SIMION, which indicated that when ions traveled circularly inside the CoCIMS they resulted in similar resolving powers and transmitted / range as traveling in a straight path. We then performed experimental validation of the CoCIMS in conjunction with a TOF MS. The CoCIMS was made of two flexible printed circuit board materials folded into cocentric cylinders separated by a gap of 2.8 mm. The device was about 50 mm diameter ×152 mm long and provided 1.846 m of serpentine path length. Three sets of mixtures (Agilent tune mixture, tetraalkylammonium salts, and an eight-peptide mixture) and four traveling waveform profiles (square, sine, triangle, and sawtooth) were used. The sawtooth TW profile produced a slightly higher resolving power for the Agilent tuning mixture and tetraalkylammonium ions. The average resolving power for Agilent tune mixture ions ranged from 37 (using sawtooth TW) to 27 (using square TW). The average resolving powers ranged from 45 (sawtooth TW) to 31 (square TW) for tetraalkylammonium ions. The resolving power of the peptide mixture ions was similar among the four TW profiles and ranged from 51 to 56. The average percent error in CCS for the peptide mixture ions was about 0.4%. The new device showed promising results, but improvements are needed to further increase the resolving power.

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