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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2002
Yoshio Yamauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Tohru Natsume, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Isobe, Tokyo, JP;
Nano Solution, Inc., Setagaya-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A problem is to provide a microspray column capable of increasing the ionization efficiency, and a high sensitive mass spectrometer and a mass spectrometric method using such a microspray column. For solving this problem, we provide a column for introducing a sample in an ionization source of a mass spectrometer (ESI/MS) being designed to ionize a sample molecule with electrospray and introduce it into an analyzer, has structural features of: (1) 0.5 μm or less in an inner diameter of a tip opening of the column; (2) 0.5 μm or more and 5 μm or less in a particle size of a column filler; and (3) fritless, a microspray column having the above (1) to (3), a mass spectrometer having such a microspray column in an ionization source, and a mass spectrometric method capable of performing a nonoflow electrospray with the microspray column.