PMID- 29310279 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20180316 LR - 20180316 IS - 1873-3573 (Electronic) IS - 0039-9140 (Linking) VI - 179 DP - 2018 Mar 1 TI - Enhancing reproducibility of SALDI MS detection by concentrating analytes within laser spot. PG - 583-587 LID - S0039-9140(17)31184-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2017.11.056 [doi] AB - Surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SALDI TOF MS) has become one of the most important analytical methods due to its less interference at low molecular weight range. However, it is still a challenge to obtain a good reproducibility of SALDI TOF MS because of the inhomogeneous distribution of analyte molecules induced by coffee ring effect. We propose a universal and reliable method to eliminate the coffee ring effect by concentrating all the analyte molecules within the laser spot. This method exhibits an excellent reproducibility of spot-to-spot and substrate-to-substrate, and the relative standard deviations (RSDs) for different concentrations are lower than 12.6%. It also performs good linear dependency (R(2) > 0.98) in the log-log plot with the concentration range of 1nM to 1muM, and the limit of detection for R6G is down to 1fmol. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Teng, Fei AU - Teng F AD - State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, PR China. FAU - Zhu, Qunyan AU - Zhu Q AD - State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, PR China. FAU - Wang, Yalei AU - Wang Y AD - State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, PR China. FAU - Du, Juan AU - Du J AD - State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, PR China. FAU - Lu, Nan AU - Lu N AD - State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, PR China. Electronic address: luenan@jlu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20171128 PL - Netherlands TA - Talanta JT - Talanta JID - 2984816R OTO - NOTNLM OT - Coffee ring effect OT - Concentrating analyte molecules OT - Hydrophobic OT - Improving reproducibility OT - SALDI TOF MS EDAT- 2018/01/10 06:00 MHDA- 2018/01/10 06:01 CRDT- 2018/01/10 06:00 PHST- 2017/06/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/11/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/11/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/01/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/01/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/01/10 06:01 [medline] AID - S0039-9140(17)31184-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2017.11.056 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Talanta. 2018 Mar 1;179:583-587. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2017.11.056. Epub 2017 Nov 28.