PMID- 22991893 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20130307 LR - 20121016 IS - 1520-6882 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2700 (Linking) VI - 84 IP - 20 DP - 2012 Oct 16 TI - Capillary coated with graphene and graphene oxide sheets as stationary phase for capillary electrochromatography and capillary liquid chromatography. PG - 8880-90 LID - 10.1021/ac3023636 [doi] AB - Graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets were immobilized onto the capillary wall using 3-aminopropyldiethoxymethyl silane as coupling agent. Graphene coated column (G@column) was fabricated by hydrazine reduction of GO modified column. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images provided visible evidence of the GO grafted on the capillary wall. Energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS) indicated the high coverage of the GO on the capillary wall. The G@column exhibited a pH-dependent electroosmotic flow (EOF) from anode to cathode in the pH range of 3-9 while the graphene oxide coated column (GO@column) showed a constant EOF. Both GO@column and G@column were evaluated for open-tubular capillary electrochromatography (OT-CEC). The GO@column was also evaluated for open-tubular capillary liquid chromatography (OT-CLC). Good separation of the tested neutral analytes on the GO@column was achieved on the basis of a typical reversed-phase behavior. On the contrary, G@column showed poor separation performance because of the strong pi-pi stacking and hydrophobic interactions between graphene and polyaromatic hydrocarbons. The high coverage of GO improved the column phase ratio which makes the GO@column promising for OT-CLC separation. Five of the major known proteins including three glycoisoforms of ovalbumin in chicken egg white were identified in a single run on the GO@column with phosphate buffer (5 mM, pH 7.0) and an applied voltage of 20 kV. The run-to-run, day-to-day, and column-to-column reproducibilities are evaluated by calculating the relative standard deviations (RSDs) of the EOF in OT-CEC and retention time of naphthalene in OT-CLC, respectively. These RSD values were found to be less than 3%. FAU - Qu, Qishu AU - Qu Q AD - Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Environmental Materials and Environmental Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225002, China. quqishu@qq.com FAU - Gu, Chenhao AU - Gu C FAU - Hu, Xiaoya AU - Hu X LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20120928 PL - United States TA - Anal Chem JT - Analytical chemistry JID - 0370536 EDAT- 2012/09/21 06:00 MHDA- 2012/09/21 06:01 CRDT- 2012/09/21 06:00 PHST- 2012/09/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/09/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/09/21 06:01 [medline] AID - 10.1021/ac3023636 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Chem. 2012 Oct 16;84(20):8880-90. doi: 10.1021/ac3023636. Epub 2012 Sep 28.