Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.

Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.

Kamen Voivodov

Jody E Beecher

Tai-Tung Yip

William E Rich

Pil-Je Um

Scot Randy Weinberger

William Landgraf

Frank Scheufele

The invention provides a probe and a method of making the probe that is removably insertable into a gas phase ion spectrometer, the probe comprising a substrate having a surface and a hydrogel material on the surface, the hydrogel material comprising binding functionalities for binding with an analyte detectable by the gas phase ion spectrometer. The invention also provides a probe and a method of making the probe that is removably insertable into a gas phase ion spectrometer, the probe comprising a substrate having a surface and a plurality of particles that are uniform in diameter on the surface, the particles comprising binding functionalities for binding with an analyte detectable by the gas phase ion spectrometer. Further, the invention provides a system comprising the probe of the present invention and a gas phase ion spectrometer comprising an energy source that directs light to the probe surface to desorb an analyte and a detector in communication with the probe surface that detects the desorbed analyte. The invention also provides a method for desorbing an analyte from a probe surface, the method comprising exposing the binding functionalities to a sample containing an analyte under conditions to allow binding between the analyte and the binding functionalities, and desorbing the analyte from the probe by gas phase ion spectrometry.

Probes for a gas phase ion spectrometer

This invention provides a mass spectrometry probe including a substrate having a surface and a film that coats the surface. The film includes openings that define features for the presentation of an analyte. The film also has a lower surface tension that the surface tension of the substrate surface, and has a water contact angle between 120&deg; and 180&deg;.

Probes with hydrophobic coatings for gas phase ion spectrometers

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Kamen Voivodov